Owney in Vermont

Owney is a stuffed dog that travels to classes in each of the 50 states by mail. Orchard School is the Vermont representative for Owney. When Owney arrives at their school, each participating class writes facts about their state on postcards and mails them to the other 49 classes. The original Owney was the mascot for the U.S. Railway Mail Service in the late 1800's. For more information about the Owney project, please see Bev Adams' web site.

Owney came to Vermont on a beautiful spring day in May.	Owney really liked the tire swing!
Owney spent time with everyone in our class.	Owney even visited with our class fish!
Owney went with us to music class.	And we shared our lunches with him.
Owney helped us do our work
Owney visited with Mr. Ebel, Orchard School's principal.	We all became such pals!
Here's Owney with all of the things that schools have been adding. We added a picture of our class that hangs around Owney's neck.	On the flip side of our class picture is Owney's visitor pass.
We were sad to say goodbye to Owney, but we knew that he would be soon be making more friends in his travels across the US.
We had a wonderful time with Owney, the Traveling Dog. Thank you Bev Adams at Rancho Rosal School in California for arranging such a fun project!

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