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Vermont Historical Society. "Stories from a Photograph." Vermont History Explorer. http://vermonthistory.org/index.php/museum/12.html?task=view (accessed June 19, 2013).

A photograph can show us one moment in time.  But we don't always know what happened before or after the photograph was taken.  You can use your imagination to make up a story based on an historic photograph.

Choose one of these photographs.  Look at it carefully.

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Think about these questions:

1.  What clues in the photograph will help you imagine the story of what happened that day?

2.  What questions do you have about what was happening when this picture was taken?

3.  What's your story about what happened before and after this photograph was taken?

Click on the photographs to learn a little more about the pictures.

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    The unusual Hopkins family
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    Saturday, June 1 launched an exhibition of the famed 1840s Hopkins drawing books! You can see this fascinating display through the month of June in our Leahy Library, located on the second floor of the Vermont History Center in Barre.
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Vermont Historical Society
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