New England Stonewalls LbNA #27736 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 17, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Derry |
| County: | Rockingham |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Explorer Pair  |
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| Found by: | olygirl |
| Last found: | Jun 13, 2015 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaaa |
| Last edited: | Dec 17, 2006 |
New England Stonewalls
This is tribute number two to the poems of Robert Frost. Living in New England you can't help notice the miles of stonewalls. Our earliest settlers started clearing the fields and pastures and building stonewalls. Robert Frost who lived in Derry, New Hampshire on a small farm expresses his thoughts regarding stonewalls in his poem "Mending Wall".
Here is a part of that poem.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall;
He is all pine and I am apple orchard,
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Your destination, if you should choose to accept it is, Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire.
If traveling north on Route 93, take exit 3, then go East on Route 111. At the intersection of route 111 East and Route 28 go left on Route 28 North. Robert Frost Farm is approximately 5 miles on your right.
When traveling south on Route 93, take exit 4 East. Go left on Route 102 through the town of Derry. At the traffic circle take the first right onto Route 28 Bypass South. This becomes Route 28 South. Continue on Route 28 South. Frost Farm will be on your left.
For tours, Frost Farm is open during summer and fall on selected days. Drive down back and park. With your back to the parking lot look down the long field. Notice the stonewall running along the left side of the field. As you walk along the stonewall think about Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". Walk to the end of the field and go through the opening in the wall, take a right and walk over the bridge. Look for number 15 and stone steps. Instead of crossing the wall, look straight down the wall. Take 6 steps. The prize is hidden low in the wall. Be careful not to dislodge any stones. Many people walk their dogs so be discreet and hide the box well back in it's place. To return go through the wall and continue on the path back to the field where you started. Notice the apple trees mentioned in the "Mending Wall". This is an easy 20 minute stroll. There is room to leave a hitch hiker in this box.
There is a geocache in this area. Make sure you find the right New England Stonewall box.
This is tribute number two to the poems of Robert Frost. Living in New England you can't help notice the miles of stonewalls. Our earliest settlers started clearing the fields and pastures and building stonewalls. Robert Frost who lived in Derry, New Hampshire on a small farm expresses his thoughts regarding stonewalls in his poem "Mending Wall".
Here is a part of that poem.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall;
He is all pine and I am apple orchard,
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Your destination, if you should choose to accept it is, Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire.
If traveling north on Route 93, take exit 3, then go East on Route 111. At the intersection of route 111 East and Route 28 go left on Route 28 North. Robert Frost Farm is approximately 5 miles on your right.
When traveling south on Route 93, take exit 4 East. Go left on Route 102 through the town of Derry. At the traffic circle take the first right onto Route 28 Bypass South. This becomes Route 28 South. Continue on Route 28 South. Frost Farm will be on your left.
For tours, Frost Farm is open during summer and fall on selected days. Drive down back and park. With your back to the parking lot look down the long field. Notice the stonewall running along the left side of the field. As you walk along the stonewall think about Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". Walk to the end of the field and go through the opening in the wall, take a right and walk over the bridge. Look for number 15 and stone steps. Instead of crossing the wall, look straight down the wall. Take 6 steps. The prize is hidden low in the wall. Be careful not to dislodge any stones. Many people walk their dogs so be discreet and hide the box well back in it's place. To return go through the wall and continue on the path back to the field where you started. Notice the apple trees mentioned in the "Mending Wall". This is an easy 20 minute stroll. There is room to leave a hitch hiker in this box.
There is a geocache in this area. Make sure you find the right New England Stonewall box.