"the public mind is the creation of the master-writers."

A bookshelf is protected by a plastic sheet during renovations to the Canaan Town Library.

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Worker Ted Wilson of the Sharon (VT) road crew closes a garage door at the town garage. Sharon's Selectboard will be going to voters at the Town Meeting with a budget increase, using part of it to fix deteriorating roads.

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front-row seat. lamoille at thetford.

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a day in the woods.

Richard Maxham prepares to tow a Chevrolet Colorado LT after the truck crashed into a line of trees along southbound Interstate 91 south of Ascutney, VT. Road conditions also contributed to the accident. No one was injured.

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draft horse logging.

I followed draft horse logger Ben Canonica for a day. Starting at dawn, he cuts down trees and uses draft horses to haul the logs to an open ground (where a truck brings the logs to the mill). Then at night he plays pond hockey.

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pushing the scouts.

Former Boy Scout 38 member Leo Hamel, 91, sits inside his home in Claremont, NH. The Boy Scouts of America celebrated its 100th anniversary last week. Hamel has been a member of the boy scouts since 1931. In 1955, Hamel was the first cub master for Cub Pack 38.

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psychic fair.

i. Debrah Wendorf, top, gets her palm read from Juliet Bell, bottom, during the Psychic Fair at the Opera House in Claremont, NH. Bell noted that Wendorf is highly analytical while aware of the values of right and wrong. "I feel a close connection to my reading," Wendorf, a Junior Accountant for Clinical Research, said. "I deal with these issues at work all the time."

ii. Michelle Avery, left, reacts to an Aura Photography reading from Ramona Nault, right. Aura Photography uses high voltages from an electrically-charged photographic plate to create a color radiant on a photograph. "When I go to these readings," Avery said. "Its interesting to see how close they [the fortunes] come in real life to what the readers say."

iii. Debrah Wendorf reacts to her palm reading from Juliet Bell.

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six generations and counting.

Painter Peter Marsh works in a hallway at the Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. For six generations, Marsh's family has been employed at Dartmouth. His descendants came to New England in the 1620's, and his family first worked at the college in the late-1800's.

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basketball. bow vs. lebanon.

Lebanon's James Kane, left, is fouled by Bow's Joshua Faber, right, while approaching the basket.

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boys hockey. burlington vs. hartford.

i. Hartford's Drew Twitchell prepares to leave the penalty box after serving a minor penalty.

ii. Hartford's Duncan Dowd, left, tries to evade a check from Burlington's Connor Hayes, right.

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quilt labor.

Esther Bruce sews a quilt at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Hanover, NH. A group of 25-30 volunteers meets every other Thursday to make quilts they will send to refugee camps throughout the world. The volunteers make 20-30 quilts a day.

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more blue.

white river junction, vt.

olympic sendoff.

i. Olympic ski jumper Nick Alexander, left, before his olympic sendoff at Storrs Hill Ski Area in Lebanon, NH.

ii. Alexander, right, hugs Meg Hudson, left. Hudson has know Alexander since he was 11 years-old, when her son and Alexander ski-jumped together.

iii. Bill Cilbrith, left, holds his granddaughter, Alanna, 5, right, while watching the festivities.

iv. The ski jump at Storrs Hill, the same jump Alexander trained on when he first learned the sport.

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i. Sharon Academy's Trenton Morrison, center, evades Mid Vermont Christian's Mitch Cannistraci, right, while driving to the basket.

ii. Hartford's Taylor Steadman, left, hugs teammate Rebecca Fogg, right, after Fogg scored a 2nd period goal against Colchester.

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ice fishing... the basics.

Dartmouth student Helen Ding learns how to use a tip-up from instructor Bud Tate during an ice fishing class offered by the New Hampshire Fish & Game through the Lebanon Recreation Department at Lebanon City Hall. "I am graduating in six months and this is my chance to learn," Ding said. "I wouldn't do this on my own."

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Server Andre Bolduc of West Lebanon, NH, cleans up the tables after the "Turning the Tables" lunch at the First Congregational Church in Lebanon, NH. Bolduc had the opportunity to thank thank the volunteers by serving them a meal.

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the workshop.

Framed by a band saw, Gregory Elder, left, shows Dudley Whitney, right, a hammer he repaired for the jewelry studio at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center. The two men are instructors at the college workworking studio, and both have work on exhibit.

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girls hockey.

Bishop Guertin at Lebanon.

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winter's cold, part ii.

mediation prep.

Casey Carroll prepares for a meditation session at the Claremont Youth Center in Claremont, NH. Due to budget cuts, the youth center might have to reduce its staff.

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winter wild uphill race.

i. Cross-country skiers ascend the Scrimshaw Trail at Whaleback Mountain during the Winter Wild Uphill Race. Participants had to complete a 2.5-mile loop around the mountain, roughly one mile of which is uphill.

ii. Shaye Robbins, right, hugs Lisa Bisceglia, left, both of Kittery, Maine, after Robbins finished the Winter Wild Uphill Race.

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winter's cold, part i.