The Speller’s Bible

In the description of the Grace photo, The Rake refers to one of the items in the simple photo as a “book” without further explanation. I assume most of your readers assumed that this book is a Bible. But as I was told by a longtime Bovey resident and neighbor of the photographer that the book is actually a dictionary. On the vote to establish Grace as the state photograph, an object status it would share with the pink and white lady’s slipper, the blueberry muffin, the monarch butterfly, etc., one of my colleagues was voting no because he considered that the theme was too religious and violated separation of church and state. I tried to argue that since the book was a dictionary the photo represented an endorsement of literacy, which he should support. He voted no; the bill passed and most people still think it’s a Bible. The Rake missed a wonderful chance to set them straight.