Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

2008

Robert Frost Stone House Museum, So. Shaftsbury, Vermont

Exhibits

"Robert Frost: The Poetry of Agriculture," explores Frost's love of rural life. He always said his poems were based on real people and real experiences. The new exhibit opens officially on June 15, 2008.


Lectures

"Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost" is sponsored by The Friends of Robert Frost. All programs take place at the Little Red Barn located behind the Stone House and start at 2 p.m., unless otherwise noted. For additional info call (802) 447-6200. All programs are FREE and open to the public.

June 15 2 p.m. Little Red Barn Carole Thompson, founder and director of the museum. "Robert Frost and The Gold Hesperidee," Frost's apple poems will be featured to celebrate the recently planted apple orchard that was developed from cuttings off historic Frost apple trees. The poems examine Frost's love and interest in "pomology," revealing his sense of seriousness and play. The talk will be followed by a walk in the new orchard. July 13 2 p.m. Little Red Barn Frost's grandson John Cone, Jr. and Frost scholar, Don Sheehy have a conversation about the Frost family. "Memories of my Grandfather": John Cone, Jr., the poet's grandson, talks with Frost scholar Don Sheehy about his childhood memories of the family and the scenes of his childhood. Now at eighty, he vividly remembers his beloved grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. Dr. Sheehy is especially interested in the life and the relationships of Robert Frost. August17 2 p.m. Little Red Barn Dr. Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and is one of the most active scholars in Frost studies today. "'Tell me about it . . . ': Frost and the Need for 'Correspondence' with Others." Mark Richardson will talk about the satisfaction Frost found in speech and how the poet viewed what it might mean really to be alienated from the company of one's fellow humans, to be cut off from "correspondence." September 21 2 p.m. Little Red Barn Dr. Robert Bernard Hass is a Frost scholar as well as a poet, author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science and is Assistant Professor of English at Edinboro University. Robert Bernard Hass will read from his newly published first book of poems, Counting Thunder. He shares with Frost a love of form, but his poetry is uniquely his own. November 9 2 p.m. Bennington College Tishmann Hall Franklin D. Reeve, Russian literary historian and scholar, accompanied Frost to Russia in 1962. Reeve is a poet in his own right and has com- posed three books of poems in the Blue Cat genre. "The Blue Cat Walks the Earth" featuring F. D. Reeve, poet; Joe Deleault, piano; and Don Davis, saxophone. The Blue Cat Walks the Earth, the third "Blue Cat" in a series, is a performance piece accompanied by a jazz combo, consisting of twenty-four poems by F. D. Reeve, ranging from the sassy and saucy to the passionate, the profoundly serious, and the elegiac.



The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire
Schedule is posted on their website.
Visit their website at: www.nonprofitumbrella.org/frostfarm/

To post your Frost program here, send the details to us including a contact and all the specifics so we may direct people to your event. E-mail to stopping@frostfriends.org

"All the way home I kept remembering"

June 15 2 p.m.	Little Red Barn	Carole Thompson, founder and director of the museum.	"Robert Frost and The Gold Hesperidee," Frost's apple poems will be featured to celebrate the recently planted apple orchard that was developed from cuttings off historic Frost apple trees. The poems examine Frost's love and interest in "pomology," revealing his sense of seriousness and play. The talk will be followed by a walk in the new orchard.
July 13 2 p.m.	Little Red Barn	Frost's grandson John Cone, Jr. and Frost scholar, Don Sheehy have a conversation about the Frost family.	"Memories of my Grandfather": John Cone, Jr., the poet's grandson, talks with Frost scholar Don Sheehy about his childhood memories of the family and the scenes of his childhood. Now at eighty, he vividly remembers his beloved grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. Dr. Sheehy is especially interested in the life and the relationships of Robert Frost.
August17 2 p.m.	Little Red Barn	Dr. Mark Richardson is Professor of English at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and is one of the most active scholars in Frost studies today.	"'Tell me about it . . . ': Frost and the Need for 'Correspondence' with Others." Mark Richardson will talk about the satisfaction Frost found in speech and how the poet viewed what it might mean really to be alienated from the company of one's fellow humans, to be cut off from "correspondence."
September 21 2 p.m.	Little Red Barn	Dr. Robert Bernard Hass is a Frost scholar as well as a poet, author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science and is Assistant Professor of English at Edinboro University.	Robert Bernard Hass will read from his newly published first book of poems, Counting Thunder. He shares with Frost a love of form, but his poetry is uniquely his own.
November 9 2 p.m.	Bennington College Tishmann Hall	Franklin D. Reeve, Russian literary historian and scholar, accompanied Frost to Russia in 1962. Reeve is a poet in his own right and has com- posed three books of poems in the Blue Cat genre.	"The Blue Cat Walks the Earth" featuring F. D. Reeve, poet; Joe Deleault, piano; and Don Davis, saxophone. The Blue Cat Walks the Earth, the third "Blue Cat" in a series, is a performance piece accompanied by a jazz combo, consisting of twenty-four poems by F. D. Reeve, ranging from the sassy and saucy to the passionate, the profoundly serious, and the elegiac.