(Lisa Rathke/AP)įrost bought the Dutch Colonial stone house built in 1769 in South Shaftsbury and moved his family there with plans to be an apple farmer, after leaving a teaching post at Amherst College. Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum, stands in front of the famous Frost poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" painted on a wall of the museum. The first line of "Stopping By Woods" ("Whose woods these are I think I know") and the final, haunting line ("And miles to go before I sleep") are instantly familiar to millions of Americans. They were memorized by school children and recited at countless graduations. He hit his prime as a poet here, she said.įrost's poems, with their simple rhymes, stories, evocations of rural life and sometimes dark allusions, were immensely popular in the 20th century. "This was a very important property for him and an important time in his life," said Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College. That house, including the 7-acre grounds with rugged old stone walls, a barn and some of the heirloom apple trees from Frost's orchard, is now open again as a museum under the ownership of Bennington College. On a warm June morning in 1922, Robert Frost sat down at his dining room table in southern Vermont and wrote " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," one of his most famous poems. (Lisa Rathke/AP) This article is more than 5 years old. The Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury, Vermont is now owned by Bennington College.
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