Robert Frost Museum to mark 100 years of ‘Stopping By Woods’

One of the best-known literary work created in Vermont can have its one hundredth anniversary celebrated with a day of actions this weekend.

The Robert Frost Stone Home Museum will host an occasion Sunday, June 12 on the website that’s overseen by Bennington School. The day will mark the centennial of the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s best-known work, “Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Night.”

Frost wrote “Stopping By Woods…” on a June morning in 1922 within the eating room of the home. The poem ends with these famously moody strains “The woods are pretty, darkish and deep/However I’ve guarantees to maintain/And miles to go earlier than I sleep/And miles to go earlier than I sleep.”

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Actions start at 10 a.m. Sunday with a “Stopping By Woods” botanizing stroll on the museum grounds with the aptly-named ecologist Kerry Woods.

This system from noon-3 p.m. contains:

• A recitation of the poem by the Village College of North Bennington’s fourth-grade class
• Jazz from the Nineteen Twenties supplied by the Bennington Conventional Jazz Band
• A “Stopping By Woods…” artwork exercise with the Vermont Arts Alternate
• A poetry “erasure” exercise with Mount Anthony Union Excessive College English Honor Society. (“Erasure poetry,” in keeping with poets.org, “also referred to as blackout poetry, is a type of poetry whereby a poet takes an present textual content and erases, blacks out, or in any other case obscures a big portion of the textual content, creating a completely new work from what stays.”)
• A “Stopping By Woods…” poetry stroll created by college students from Shaftsbury Elementary College and put in by the McCollough Free Library
• Meals can be obtainable for buy from Style of India, and there can be snow cones and a money bar.

When you go

WHAT: Neighborhood celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Night”

WHEN: 10 a.m. stroll, noon-3 p.m. occasions Sunday, June 12

WHERE: Robert Frost Stone Home Museum, 121 Vermont 7A, Shaftsbury

INFORMATION: The museum usually prices admission however Sunday’s occasion can be free. (802) 477-6200, https://www.bennington.edu/robert-frost-stone-house-museum

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