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The Road Not Taken! LbNA #47986

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 8, 2009
Location:
City:Derry
County:Rockingham
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:sharpie54
Found by: Woodland Poets
Last found:Sep 29, 2014
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa
Last edited:Jun 8, 2009
Park in the rear parking lot. With the house behind you, follow along the left side of the field, along (The Mending Wall). You will see numbered markers, facing marker #10,
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, (take a right) as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Follow the path over the Bridge, at the fork take a right #15 is just ahead.
Take a right down the stairs
Pass #17 and cross over another bridge. At #19 take 5 steps forward look to the right for the Y shaped tree. Inside you will find your prize.
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.



The Property Location and History:

Robert Frost moved across the border from Massachusetts in the fall of 1900 to raise poultry and farm his small, picturesque homestead just a twelve-mile drive north from Lawrence, through Methuen and Salem to the township of Derry, New Hampshire.
The uncommonly attractive 30-acre farm known as the "Magoon Place" after a previous owner was located about a quarter of a mile below Webster's Corner on the east side of Route 28, and only two miles from the center of the village.
It was here in this unassuming place that the poet/farmer interacted with his country neighbors and gained the feel of New England farm life. Here he found his poetic voice, wrote a good portion of his first 2-1/2 books of poetry, and found inspiration for his best-loved literary works. The Derry homestead was undisputedly the seed from which Frost's poetic inspiration and literary career grew.