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Story & Photography by Kitty Morse

I tage's ill-fitting-screen. Through the window
felt like a voyeur pressing my nose against the cot-

streaked with dirt, beyond the impressionistic veil
of cobwebs, I distinguished a small wooden table
topped with a vintage oil lamp and a manual type-
writer.MyheartpoundedasIpeeredinsidetheFrost
Place, the home that had once belonged to Robert Frost, one
ofAmerica'sgreatestpoets(1874-1963).Adventuresbythe
Book (www.adveneturesbythebook.com), a company spe-
cializing in literary destinations, introduced us to this un-
usual detour in rural Franconia, New Hampshire, the non-
profiteducationalcenterforpoetrywhereRobertFrostlived
and taught for 23 years.

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