A rare lily to be found on the walk to the Frost house! To Robert Woolmington of North Bennington, Vermont Robert Frost lived in many places and didn’t live in them for very long, but the house he lived in for the longest time was a house in Shaftsbury, Vermont, a lovely old-fashioned modest house made from stone and wood, all of which must have come from the immediate vicinity. You can take a drive up Route 7A in southern Vermont and you will come to it, on the line that divides the city of Bennington from the town of Shaftsbury, if you stay within the speed limit. If not you will find yourself, well, not there.
Thanks, Ann, I remember reading Jamaica Kinkaid's memoir "A Small Place," of her youth in Antigua, in Joyce Johnson's autobiography class at Columbia, such deep connection of observation and language...
Thanks so much! It is amazing, isn't it, how this engagement with place follows her through such different surroundings. The love of gardening is maybe an expression of that... In both her pieces for us there are all these instances of stopping the journey, pausing to look at the thing others have overlooked...
Thanks, Ann, I remember reading Jamaica Kinkaid's memoir "A Small Place," of her youth in Antigua, in Joyce Johnson's autobiography class at Columbia, such deep connection of observation and language...
Thanks so much! It is amazing, isn't it, how this engagement with place follows her through such different surroundings. The love of gardening is maybe an expression of that... In both her pieces for us there are all these instances of stopping the journey, pausing to look at the thing others have overlooked...