Ever since he was a boy, Wilson Bentley liked snow. He wanted to find out what snow looked like, but he wasn't quick enough with his mom's microscope. One day he read about a camera that had a microscope on it, but he didn't have enough money to buy it. One year his parents put their savings together and bought the camera for him. He made amazing pictures with his camera. Nobody was interested in them at that time. Even when other kids were building forts, snowmen, and snowballs, he was taking pictures of snowflakes. When he got older he did slide shows of his snowflakes. And he shared his snowflakes with as many people as wanted to see them. His pictures inspired people to think more about snow. One day when he was old he walked home in a blizzard to make more pictures. He got pneumonia from walking in the blizzard and died two weeks later. Now there is a monument in Jericho, Vermont, telling about him.
I liked how he wanted to find out about snow, so he did. He went to work on it.
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