Frost Farm LbNA #47937 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 8, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Derry |
| County: | Rockingham |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | ecvplaya  |
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| Found by: | Stormfowl |
| Last found: | Aug 20, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFaaaFaaa |
| Last edited: | Jun 8, 2009 |
Pull into the back parking lot of the Robert Frost Farm. Park in front of flower pots. Walk straight to large rock from there continue walking to 2nd large rock and take 7 steps to broken branches of tree.Where the branches touch the ground you will find the letter box.
Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 and died on January 29,1963, he was born in San Fransisco California to his mom Isabelle Moodie and his dad William Prescott Frost Jr. Robert's dad was a teacher and later became an editor of the San Fransisco Evening Bulletin and was also an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. after his dad passed away in 1885 the family moved cross country to Lawrence Massachusetts. Frost graduated from Lawrence High in 1892. He published his first poem in his school's magazine. He later attended Dartmouth and Harvard colleges. In 1894 he sold his first poem, the poem was called My Butterfly, it was published on November 8, 1894 edition of the New York Independent, he made some money on it. His first book of poems, A Boy's Will was published in 1913.
He left Harvard University to support his growing family. His grandfather Frost had purchased a farm for the young couple in Derry, NH before he died. Robert worked on the farm for about nine years while writing poems early in the morning and many of them later became very famous. His farming was a failure and he returned to teaching at Pinkerton Academy as a English teacher.
Frost made many other poems that were very famous. Frost received the Pullitzer Prize for poetry four times. In 1961, he read the poem " The Gift Outright " at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. His last collection of poems, In The Clearing, was published in 1962, when Frost was 88 years old. Frost is well remembered to be a great writer and was known to live at the Frost farm for many years.
Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 and died on January 29,1963, he was born in San Fransisco California to his mom Isabelle Moodie and his dad William Prescott Frost Jr. Robert's dad was a teacher and later became an editor of the San Fransisco Evening Bulletin and was also an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. after his dad passed away in 1885 the family moved cross country to Lawrence Massachusetts. Frost graduated from Lawrence High in 1892. He published his first poem in his school's magazine. He later attended Dartmouth and Harvard colleges. In 1894 he sold his first poem, the poem was called My Butterfly, it was published on November 8, 1894 edition of the New York Independent, he made some money on it. His first book of poems, A Boy's Will was published in 1913.
He left Harvard University to support his growing family. His grandfather Frost had purchased a farm for the young couple in Derry, NH before he died. Robert worked on the farm for about nine years while writing poems early in the morning and many of them later became very famous. His farming was a failure and he returned to teaching at Pinkerton Academy as a English teacher.
Frost made many other poems that were very famous. Frost received the Pullitzer Prize for poetry four times. In 1961, he read the poem " The Gift Outright " at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. His last collection of poems, In The Clearing, was published in 1962, when Frost was 88 years old. Frost is well remembered to be a great writer and was known to live at the Frost farm for many years.