Hometown History Photo Book summaryYou can consider yourself a
local historian after visiting and researching some original
landmarks in your city or town. - Reading Is Fundamental - Arts
and Crafts MATERIALS: Camera, access to old photos and published
materials, scrapbook. If you live in an older town or district,
you may be fascinated when you compare the way the town looked
fifty or a hundred years ago with the way it looks now. Walk
around the older parts of town with an older family member or an
adult. Bring along a camera so you can photograph the present-
day scene: a new housing development, a row of shops, traffic on
the four-lane highway. Get your pictures developed, and place
them into a photo album or scrapbook. Then, head over to the
library or a local museum. Can you find old photographs or
drawings of these same sites taken or drawn decades or even
centuries ago? Perhaps youll come across an old picture postcard
showing county fairgrounds where the mall now stands, or a small
plaque in the park