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...make one hell of a department with people who have left Harvard voluntarily or involuntarily,” he says. But Dickinson’s situation is unique because his family lives in Ripton, Vermont, 15 minutes outside of Middlebury, and he was commuting to Cambridge. Middlebury “was a chance to go to a name-brand school and be near my family...
Frost owned a succession of farms in Vermont; during the winter he lived in Boston and later in Cambridge. He was a "halfway farmer," although the half sometimes got out of hand-as when in 1940 it became necessary to eat outdoors at Frost's Ripton, Vt, farm because he had installed a tribe of 100 baby chicks in his kitchen. Eventually a way of life worked itself out: Frost allowed Kathleen Morrison and her husband (then director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference) to live summers in the Ripton farmhouse while the poet moved to a nearby cabin during...
...ROAD from Middlebury College up to the Breadloaf Mountain campus (where in late summer a gang of artist types and their students celebrate the annual writers' conference started about 50 years ago by Robert Frost), you pass first through the scenic village of Ripton, Vermont, a town which will probably satisfy your expectations of what Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
...likened to the barking of an eagle), spends a couple of months in Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends off unwanted callers, fusses over his diet and clothes, tries to see that he gets to bed at a reasonable hour...