ROBERT FROST'S FARM FROM HAMPTON NH
Rain is in the forecast for today so how about a trip to the Robert Frost Farm in Derry. It's about an hour ride you'll need to check mapquest for directions but if you stay on the back roads you'll pass by many vegetable stands and it's a nice ride.
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. After his father died when Robert was 11, his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts where his father's family lived. At Lawrence High School, Robert began to write poetry. In his senior year, Frost met Elinor Miriam White, with whom he shared an interest in reading and writing poetry. Frost entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1892, and although he stayed for less than one semester, it was there that Robert Frost began to think of becoming a poet.
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. After his father died when Robert was 11, his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts where his father's family lived. At Lawrence High School, Robert began to write poetry. In his senior year, Frost met Elinor Miriam White, with whom he shared an interest in reading and writing poetry. Frost entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1892, and although he stayed for less than one semester, it was there that Robert Frost began to think of becoming a poet.
On November 8, 1894, he sold one of his poems, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to a magazine and saw it published in the Independent. This was the first appearance of Frost's poetry in a publication with national circulation.
In December of 1895, Robert Frost and Elinor Miriam White were married in Lawrence, MA. The couple began to raise a family - a son, Elliott was born in 1896 and a daughter, Lesley in 1899. Frost also attended Harvard College as a special student, continued to write poetry, and occasionally saw his work published.In 1900, Frost's paternal grandfather, worried by Robert's apparent lack of ambition, bought a farm in Derry, N.H. for Robert's use. In the fall of 1900, Robert and Elinor moved into their home with Lesley; Elliott had died earlier that year at the age of four.
The farm was completely isolated. For Robert Frost, who especially enjoyed the seclusion, the farm was an ideal setting to raise his family and continue to write poetry in private. Though the farm and its surroundings were the inspiration for much of what Frost wrote, it was his poetry, not the farming, that was his primary concern.
Today's weather:
Tuesday, areas of fog in the morning. Showers and thunderstorms. showers may be heavy at times. Humid with highs in the mid 70s. south winds around 10 mph.
Tuesday night, showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
posted by Corazoncitos @ 8/30/2005 07:21:00 AM
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