Robert Frost in New England (English 410)

Itinerary for Exploration Seminar

Saturday, Feb. 23

· fly to Boston

· “Literary Tour” of downtown Boston, Back Bay, Freedom Trail

· stay at Omni Parker Hotel—the posh literary salon in its day

Sunday, Feb. 24

· visit Concord, Mass—homes of

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Henry David Thoreau

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

- Louisa Mae Alcott

· hike around Walden Pond (time permitting)

Monday, Feb. 25

· visit milltown museums, Lowell, Mass

· visit The Robert Frost Foundation, Lawrence, Mass (Frost’s hometown)

Tuesday, Feb. 26

· visit the Frost Farm at Derry, New Hampshire

- walk the “Hyla Brook” Trail

· drive north to Franconia, NH

· go tubing at nearby ski area (time permitting)

Wednesday, Feb. 27

· visit “The Frost Place,” near Franconia—now a major center for poetry

- we’ll take “The Road Not Taken”!

· drive to Middlebury, Vermont, site of the Breadloaf Writers Conference

· talk with Jay Parini, novelist and Frost biographer (confirmed)

Thursday, Feb. 28

· visit “The Stone House,” Bennington, VT-- long-time Frost residence and museum

- where Frost wrote              “Stopping by Woods on a  Snowy Evening”

· wander Bennington—pottery, Grandma Moses paintings, Hemmings Motor News!!

Friday, Feb. 29

· visit William Pritchard, Frost biographer and critic (confirmed)

-  hopefully in the Rare Book Room of the Robert Frost Library, Amherst College

· drive back to Boston

· attend a Poetry Slam? (if scheduled that evening)

Saturday, Mar. 1

· fly back to Moorhead