"For more than a decade — between going to school and playing, working and cooking — residents of this southwestern Vermont town worked as models for Norman Rockwell. For $5, they would spend a few hours posing, their young faces forever captured in calendars, greeting cards and paintings.Rockwell left Arlington in 1953, and many of his child models grew up and followed suit. But on Saturday, dozens returned for a celebration of Rockwell, a reunion of grown models in the small town that set the stage for some of his most iconic works.
“This is an old-home reunion for a lot of us,” said Ardis Edgerton Clark, who lived next door to the Rockwell family and befriended them. “A lot of the models are gone. It’s the kids who are left. I’m talking as the kid who is 76 now.”"
They left out the most interesting model: Ruby Bridges from "The Problem We All Live With"
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