The Friends of Robert Frost Newsletter

Our thanks to Mrs. Elizabeth H. Nutter for her gift of the bronze Robert Frost Medal.    The Sound of Sense vs. The Sound of Music   "Road is Taken to Sing Frost" article in Boston Globe April 16, 2001.   "Icy Response to a Musical Frost" in L. A. Times May 16, 2001 Coming in June: The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost Cambridge University Press, 2001. University of Mich receives gift of Frost letters from great-grandson Bob Frost. (click)   Frost manuscript at University of N. H. letter to William Stanley Braithwaite, October 31, 1927 (Click) A Frostian Crossword Puzzle (Click)    Join us Become a Frost Friend  Previous Newsletter Visit The Frost Free Library

Letter from the President May 15, 2001 Hello Frost Friends,   2001 should be an exciting year for Frostians. Boston University is featuring an exhibition on Frost. The summer calendar at the various Frost sites has been posted. Click here to see all the programs. Look for the Frost Conference on September 21, in Durham, N. H.   Here is a progress report on the Frost Stone House in Shaftsbury. We have been actively working with the owners to purchase the property since the middle of January. We had hoped to have an announcement for National Poetry Month, but the discussion has been prolonged and we do not yet have an agreement to purchase the house. The good news is, we are getting closer.   Our membership continues to grow. We recently had an inquiry to start a local chapter in Rockland, Maine. We are delighted about this development and encourage Frost lovers to form clubs in their local communities. This has always been the vision of our organization to reach Frost fans everywhere. This poet is a wonderful way to bring people together in a study or discussion group or simply to read the poems outloud over evening coffee.   Our website has been very successful. Many students are attracted to the wealth of information available for their study of Frost's poetry. Over the winter, a large new section was added on Frost's Poetics. The Web site averages 8000 visitors per month and the number is growing. Of course, it is no surprise to us that Frost is still making new friends almost 40 years after his death.     Yours in Frost, Carole Thompson           The Vermont Statehood Art Medal is the seventh of a series representing the states to be struck for Presidential Art Medals, Inc., of Englewood, Ohio. Ralph J. Menconi, noted New York sculptor, produced the Vermont Statehood Art Medal.