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VOLUME 33, NUMBER 10 JULY 24, 2008 FREE THE WEEKLY NEWS & LIFESTYLE JOURNAL OF MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY Get Out and... Dancers In Motion: Next Arts On Stage In Visit the home of poet North Conway: Local dancers from area Robert Frost on Jubilee dance studios graced the a quiet road in Concert: MWV Theatre Company stage at Arts Jubilee event … brings ‘Cabaret’ to the Franconia … Don’t miss Eastern Slope Playhouse the annual Symphony B Pops Concert under 24 Jackson, NH 03846 • Lodging: 383-9443 • Recreation: 383-0845 the Stars – with A 2 A 6 www.nestlenookfarm.com • 1-800-659-9443 fireworks!… B1 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH SSTTOORRYY LLAANNDD Page Two CC OO RR NN EE RR The tradition continues at... Where there's a smile & adventure around every corner! New this summer at Story Land We've turned the spotlight on new Entertainment! Join the Circus under the Big Top for 3 shows daily through Labor Day Get Out and....Visit a poet’s home Franconia’s Frost Place keeps poet’s spirit alive By Jeff Woodburn it continues. twists up a steep hill. It lulls my youngest Contributing Writer Mr. Frost, a San Francisco native, to sleep. We pass by a few simple homes OBERT FROST ONCE lived in would become rural New England’s hidden into the landscape. It is a place this area, and as I understand it, leading citizen. He was spokesman for where you’d more likely find a moose Rthe old place that he called home the Yankee ways of thrift and common than a museum. for five years and 18 summers after that sense, yet he was fleeced by the seller I imagine this road hasn’t changed all inspired some of his most famous when he purchased his small hill farm, that much since Mr. Frost first wandered poems. He arrived in Franconia as a lit- and trained his one cow to be milked at up it nearly a century ago looking for a tle known poet, but left as an important noon to accommodate his sleeping farm with a view. We pull into a small literary figure. Thanks to the foresight schedule. Moreover, his words were as parking area built into the embankment. of this small town his memory and spir- strong and simple as an old stonewall, My eldest son and I take turns touring but behind the vivid imagery the grounds and the few public rooms in were deep philosophical mus- the old house. We hike a short incline to And enjoy two new Stage ings. the pleasant backyard (with a half-mile Shows, each with 4 We arrive in Franconia on a nature trail that includes plaques with hot, humid day. My companions poems written here), a small post and performances daily are my two-, five- and 13-year- beam barn that serves as a gathering old sons. From Franconia place and book/gift shop. It also houses through Labor Day Village we take Route 116 to a collection of old farm tools, and a wall Bickford Hill Road, which is a of photos of the “poets in residence” quiet, shaded, dirt road that who have spent summers here since the runs along a stream. Once you Frost Place opened in 1977. Nearby is cross the metal bridge, the name the tiny Civil War-era cape that was Mr. changes to Ridge Road, and it Frost’s humble home and summer retreat for 23 years. Its authenticity is a above: The mailbox at result of being used seasonally by one the Frost Place. family for most of the last century. The Frosts were the only winter inhabitants left: John Cones, Robert from 1915-20, and lived there without Frost’s 81-year-old grandson. electricity, indoor plumbing or central heat. The Frosts summered here until oposite page: The home of 1938. Robert Frost’s family from We are greeted by an eager and aspir- 1915-20 and their summer ing young novelist, who serves as the retreat until 1938. guide. When I tell him the purpose of Plus all your longtime our visit, he ushers me toward the only (Photos by Jeff Woodburn) other apparent visitor, an unassuming favorites! On the Cover Inside Index Plentiful produce for all Theatre Night Arts & Entertainment..............Page B1 Geoffrey Hancock is the Garden The North Conway Library will host its Calendar...................................Page B4 Manager at the Community School Farm annual Theater Night on Sunday, Aug. Entertainment..........................Page B6 in South Tamworth, and as the cover shot 24, beginning with a gala champagne shows, his garden is providing a bountiful punch reception and hors d’oeuvres On the Links..........................Page B10 harvest for community members who galore made by local chefs. Page B8 On the Rockpile.....................Page B14 would like to exchange some hands-on 603-383-4186 labor for a share of the produce. Read On The Links Nooks & Crannies.................Page B21 Route 16, Glen, NH more about the Community School’s pro- Meet the man who is re-designing the Real Estate .............................Page A18 gram on Page A14 Mt. Washington Hotel golf course as To Your Health.....................Pages B15 www.storylandnh.com (Linda Tucker/Mountain Ear Photo) Donald Ross would have liked. Page B10 Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, July 24, 2008 older man. “Robert Frost’s grandson,” cupine pretty bad and had to be put wonder if those were the ones that were sleep. And miles to go before we sleep. he whispers, as if he doesn’t have a down.” Mr. Cones remembers taking “lovely, dark and deep,” and then I’m The Frost Place is open from late name. Today, he doesn’t. I send my son long walks with his grandfather, and I interrupted by the commotion of the May until early November. For more to gather up his brothers to consecrate think of Mr. Frost’s words that summed three boys, and I realize that it really is information go to www.frostplace.org or this historic encounter. The man seems up his often sad, but successful life, “it time to go. And miles to go before we call 823-5510. ▲ a bit embarrassed by it all and introduces goes on.” himself as “John Cones.” It has been 24 years, since Mr. Cones The 81-year-old retired architect has been here and he’s pleased that the from Salem, Va., changes the subject “interest (in Mr. Frost) hasn’t faded” and away from his famous grandfather, to that the “house has been fixed up a another ancestor and his namesake, who whole lot” since his last visit. I coax him served under George Washington and to pose for a few photographs and then was later granted land (called Cones) feel like I’ve intruded enough. near Columbia, N.H. I turn the conser- By now the kids are anxious to leave; vation back and he gently reminisces, we take a quick walk through the house. not about poems, but rather porcupines. I stop to imagine Mr. Frost writing from It seems his grandfather’s big the old cracked leather chair that looks Newfoundland, Winnie, “got into a por- out at a wooded mountain vista and NORTH CONWAY’S MOOSE SAFARI MOOSE TOURS WE GO WHERE THE MOOSE ARE! 100% IN 2008 Bus Departs Most Evenings from North Conway - Train Station Area Reservations Recommended - Adults $25 • Children $20 Enjoy a 3 hour mountain journey. For information visit Moose & More Shop,N. Conway Village. 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Smith Russell, Executive Peter Minnich Director of Arts Jubilee. The shirts will Paul Stuart • Steve Caming be for sale at the Arts Linda Tucker Jubilee Festival Karen Stancik Concerts, which take place outdoors at Cranmore. For more CONTRIBUTING information about the PHOTOGRAPHERS concerts, visit Greg Keeler www.MWVEvents.com. (Courtesy Photo) Steven D. Smith Justin Macomber Joshua Spaulding Karen Stancik ADVERTISING SALES Clair Hunt Green Mountain Conservation Group celebrates its move to Huntress House To the Editor, Foundation in 2007, GMCG purchased efforts to renovate this new office, and SALES ASSISTANT On July 9, the Green Mountain this small house and retrofitted it for an would like to thank the many folks and Conservation Group (GMCG) celebrat- office. businesses that helped to make the move Elizabeth Carleton ed the opening of its new headquarters Surrounded by wetlands, a large peat to Huntress House possible. 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