Vermont is, of course, known for its snow. The white, fluffy stuff is beloved by skiers and landscape painters alike, each year turning the Green Mountain State into a winter wonderland. While we tend ...

In 1885, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley photographed the first snowflake ever at his home in the town within eyeshot of Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield. More than a century later, Stuart Hall, who ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes -- no two alike. Bentley, also ...

JERICHO - In the winter months, specifically when it's snowing, a man in Jericho ventures into his yard with a board roughly the size of a pizza box wrapped in black felt. He presents the board to the ...

Studies among the Snow Crystals by Wilson Bentley 1902. Bentley was a bachelor farmer whose hobby was photographing snow flakes. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Close-up of ...

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In 1885, American farmer Wilson Bentley attached a camera to his microscope and took what is believed to be the very first photo of a snowflake. Although the images sold for just five cents at the ...