A Stowe resident hopes to see a Vermont icon on Google’s search page.
Beth Liberman of Stowe will work with students Friday, Feb. 9, at the Helen Day Art Center to create drawings of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, whose birthday is that day.
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Steady light rain this evening. Showers continuing overnight. Areas of patchy fog. Low 38F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%..
Steady light rain this evening. Showers continuing overnight. Areas of patchy fog. Low 38F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Updated: March 27, 2024 @ 6:10 pm
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A Stowe resident hopes to see a Vermont icon on Google’s search page.
Beth Liberman of Stowe will work with students Friday, Feb. 9, at the Helen Day Art Center to create drawings of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, whose birthday is that day.
Liberman wants Google’s featured Doodle Feb. 9 to be one of the drawings the students create.
Some of Google’s Doodles are chosen through the Doodle 4 Google contest, open to kindergartners through seniors in high school.
The contest began Jan. 8 and will continue through March 2.
Liberman shares a birthday with Bentley — this year will be her 50th. It would have been his 153rd, and she wanted to honor that milestone.
She visited the Snowflake Bentley museum in Jericho when she moved to Vermont; she fell in love with the story of the photographer working into winter nights to preserve the season’s beauty.
She’s been teaching English in Israel and has used Snowflake Bentley as part of her course material.
Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley perfected a process of catching snowflakes on black velvet so they could be photographed.
“His photographs were so impeccable and scientifically accurate that nobody repeated his work,” Liberman said.
Since snow is a foreign concept to many of her Israeli students, Liberman was inspired as she watched them admire the beauty of Bentley’s work.
“Catching a snowflake, to keep it frozen, to be able to look at it, it really generated some fascinating conversation,” Liberman said.
It did for Bentley, too. He admired the beauty of the crystalline flakes, and a lifelong passion was born.
When Liberman visited the Jericho museum, she was captivated.
“It’s just such a fabulous story,” Liberman said. “I literally fell in love with the combination of art and science.”
She thought a Google Doodle of Bentley’s birthday would be the perfect way to celebrate her own, and to honor his.
Liberman has tried before to have Bentley featured on Google’s Doodle on Feb. 9, with no luck.
She thinks if the company is flooded with contest entries for Bentley’s birthday, the company might choose one of the drawings.
“I think he embodied a certain Vermont spirit, and relationship with the weather,” Liberman said.
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