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july, 2017

21jul - 23All DayThe Frost Place 40th Anniversary Celebration

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The Frost Place will celebrate its 40th anniversary July 21 – 23 with a series of poetry readings and community events. This summer also marks the centennial of the time Robert Frost lived with his family in the 19th century farmhouse on Ridge Road in Franconia. All events are FREE and open to the public! For planning purposes, we are asking people to register online if they plan to attend. For more information and to register for any of these celebratory events, please go to The Frost Place event calendar here.

Highlights of the celebration include:

Friday, July 21st – Evening poetry readings by Charles Simic and Nikky Finney and community reception at The Frost Place.
Saturday, July 22nd – Afternoon poetry readings by The Frost Place Latin@ and Pardlo fellows Javier Zamora, Charif Shanahan, Diana Delgado, Willy Palomo, and Gerardo Pacheco.
Saturday evening performance of A.M. Dolan’s play This Verse Business by Emmy Award-winning actor Gordon Clapp.
Sunday, July 23rd – Read-a-thon featuring prominent poets, local residents, and children reading Robert Frost poems in the Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place.

Since its founding in 1977, when the town of Franconia purchased Frost’s former home and the surrounding property, The Frost Place has served as a museum and center for poetry and the arts. The house is open to the public from May to October, allowing visitors to see where America’s most beloved poet lived and worked from 1915-1920. The house also serves as summer living quarters for an annually selected poet-in-residence to work and live in.

A short poetry trail through Frost’s apple orchard and woods behind the house allows visitors to wander from poem to poem. The barn, in which Frost kept his dairy cow and chickens, is open daily as a gift shop and functions as a venue for regular poetry readings in the evenings.

Each summer, The Frost Place holds unique poetry programs allowing attendees to work closely with world-class contemporary faculty-poets. These programs cultivate both poetry education and engaging discussion.

While the landscape has changed since Frost and his family lived there, the front porch view of Mount Lafayette and the Franconia Range is just as stunning. Countless visitors and poets find inspiration in the place Frost once called home.

Time

july 21 (Friday) - 23 (Sunday) EST

Location

The Frost Place

158 Ridge Road - Franconia

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26jul4:00 am- 6:00 pmBach and BrewsLIttleton Food Co-Op

Event Details

The Littleton Food Co-op is excited to team up with our partner of the month, North Country Chamber Players and local brewing company, rek’∙lis, for a July series of Bach and Brews. The Wednesday series takes place July 12, 19 and 26 from 4-6pm.

Beginning Wednesday July 12, Brewer Ian Dowling of rek’∙lis brewing company in Bethlehem, NH will be discussing ‘4 ingredients and the truth’. Each week he will present 1-2 different ingredients used in their beers and discuss the quality and importance of each. From their website “Rek’*lis Brewing Company is a small town brewery that makes huge beers! We know that our precious lives are short and we’ve decided that life’s purpose is to have fun, enjoy it to the fullest, and drink good beer.” Each discussion will be complete with product samples. Attendees may have the opportunity to sample Mt. Eustis, a beer being produced in limited quantities in partnership to raise funds for the local ski hill.

Immediately following the discussion with rek’∙lis, shoppers will be treated to a different mini concert each week performed by members of the North Country Chamber Players. Serving as a national model for resident ensembles, the Chamber Players have presented countless education and outreach programs in New Hampshire public and private schools at town halls, meeting houses, opera houses, radio stations, movie theaters, libraries, factory floors, supermarkets, community centers, senior facilities, hospitals, rehab centers, churches, synagogues, ski lodges, grand resorts and summer camps, among others.
Bach and Brews is a free event open to the public.