Photos of and reflections on the 2016 Vermont History Expo. I was there to help represent the Ripton Historical Society, so staffed a booth and also checked out other exhibits. Since RHS is very new, I wanted to look for inspiration and good ideas from the competition. :) All photos are mine.

1. VERMONT HISTORY EXPO 2016:
PHOTOS AND REFLECTIONS
PHOTOS AND REFLECTIONS
Bryan Alexander
for the Ripton Historical Society

2. 1. OUR BOOTH

3. OUR BOOTH WAS A HIT
Many positive comments about construction, posters
Overhead lighting a real plus
Everyone wanted to watch the videos
Millstone tool impressed

7. CHILLY ON FROST
Nobody asked me about Robert Frost. Nobody expressed
interest in any way.

8. 2. REFLECTIONS ON OTHER
BOOTHS
Fairly diverse styles and strategies
We looked awesome in comparison to many
Very few had outgoing people like Bryan

10. PHYSICAL ARTIFACTS
Several booths did well with hands-on materials.
The following is a tool for boring a hole in a log. Everyone
wanted to try it:

12. COMPARISONS
This one offers a nice way into
the past.

13. COMPARISONS
This one offers a nice way into
the past.
PS: created by school kids!

14. QUESTIONS
Fascinating approach:
pose materials as
unsolved mysteries, or
questions to be
explored

15. MULTIMEDIA APPROACHES
Several had very interesting uses of maps.
For example, this one starts with a 19th-century map, then
annotates key details:

17. MULTIMEDIA APPROACHES
Several had very interesting uses of maps.
For example, this one was an aerial photo (I think), liberally
annotated with text and small images:

20. PS: