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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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Week 15: The Boy -- a photo prompt

Submitted by ggevalt on January 29, 2007 - 21:46.

The BoyThe Boy This photograph, captioned “Son of a woodcutter in Eden Mills, Vermont,” was taken in August 1936 by Carl Mydans for the federal government; it was of 160,000 documentary photos commissioned during the 30s and 40s. YWP students were asked to write a story, poem or essay based on this photograph. The students were not told he was the son of a woodcutter. Mydans went onto become one of Life magazine's first photographers and was a giant. He died in September 2004 at the age of 97. To see more photographs from this era, click here and use Vermont as a search word. This is a site within the Library of Congress site.
More YWP pieces in response to this prompt will be posted here during the week. Check back!

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