Lewis Hine traveled all over New England photographing children in mills. Thanks to Lewis Hine’s eagle eye, and Elizabeth Winthrop’s passion and imagination, this one photograph has been – and will continue to be – worth many thousands of words.” Subjects and themes rich for research and art projects, lectures, panel discussions, dramatic interpretation, field trips, and the like include Vermont mill history and the history of child labor, French Canadian culture, family relationships, poverty, the value of education, and especially, the power of old photographs to tell stories. “ Counting on Grace is not only a fine piece of literature to read and discuss it holds great potential for extension activities. Larissa Vigue, the program director of the 2007 VERMONT READS program says: I love to think of the pairings that a discussion of Grace’s life in the mill might foster and I have been privileged to listen in on some of those conversations Stories shared among all ages help to connect people who might otherwise be separated by age or geography or life circumstances. Counting on Grace has been selected as a Community Read in states as diverse as Vermont, Indiana and North Carolina.
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