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In the
Woods
The Personal Pages of the Williamson
Family
Derry, New Hampshire, USA
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These pages are
a small, personal expression in a vast place
known as the Web. The items you will find were
placed here as a way of communicating with our
families, friends and business associates. There
are three of us in our household, along with
three cats and a large tank of fish. We reside on
the outskirts of Derry, New Hampshire... in the
woods, so to speak.
However, the real reason that we call this web
creation In the Woods is that we live just down
the road from one of Robert Frost's New Hampshire
homesteads. The Frost Farm, built in the
late-1800s, is a large but simple two story,
white clapboard farm house so typical of New
Hampshire architecture of the period.
Robert L. Frost, one of the most popular American
poets of his time, lived here with his wife and
four children between 1900 and 1911. An airy barn
and a woodshed are attached to the house, which
is filled with period furnishings. A nature trail
runs through nearby woods and fields. The grounds
are a great place to take a walk or even have a
picnic.
There is an entire section in these pages devoted
to Robert Frost, but the focus is towards the
time he spent here in Derry. It is ironic that
the time he lived here formed so much of his
poetry, yet he was never published until he had
sold his farm here and left to live and write in
England.
While you're here, please feel free to look
around. Like the woods, this place keeps on
changing with the days and the weeks and the
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Stopping
in the Woods on a Snowy Evening
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- Whose woods these
are I think I know
His house is in the
village though;
He will not see me
stopping here
To watch his woods
fill up with snow.
- My little horse must
think it queer
To stop without a
farmhouse near
Between the woods
and frozen lake
The darkest evening
of the year.
He gives his harness
bells a shake
To ask if there is
some mistake.
The only other
sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and
downy flake.
The woods are
lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises
to keep,
And miles to go
before I sleep.
And miles to go
before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
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