Rescheduled Events
Inviting guest speakers to Derry to celebrate the work of America's foremost poet is a tradition at the farm. Lectures are held in the Farm's barn theater beginning at 2:00 pm and are open to the public free of charge.
Programs are made possible by grants from the New Hampshire Humanities Council and are sponsored by the Division of Parks and Recreation, the Robert Frost Homestead Trustees, and the Friends of the Robert Frost Farm.
The Frost Farm, a national historic landmark, is located on NH Route 28, 1-3/4 miles south of the traffic circle in Derry, NH.
For more information, call (603) 432-3091.
Programs are free (except appraisals) and open to the public.
Sunday, October 1st - 2 PM - “Antiques and Collectibles Appraisals”
Herc Pappachristos is an appraiser and auction manager with Grogan & Co., of Dedham, MA and has been active in the antique world for over twenty years. He is also a member of the Frost Farm Board of Trustees. Herc’s afternoon of appraisals has become an anticipated regular summer event and he is back this year by popular demand. Bring your items to the Frost Farm and have them assessed by an expert. There will be a $5.00 fee for each appraised item.
Sunday, September 25th - 2:00 PM - International Poetry Reading
PETER FULTON / PETER THABIT JONES / JOHN DOTSON
We are extremely pleased to be hosting a special poetry reading session by three accomplished poets, each having a unique connection to Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
Peter Fulton began writing songs and poems in his teenage years. Peter's first listening to Dylan Thomas' performance of Under Milk Wood inspired him to write and perform his first verse drama entitled Death of a Worn Man with Bruce Burnside on guitar and Dan Cole on harmonica. His other works include: a collection of poems entitled Boulders in Ice, a novella accompanied by a CD of songs entitled Silicon in Sand, and a book of poems and photographs in collaboration with sculptor McAlister Coleman entitled Figures in the Garden at Glen Magna. Peter performed the world premiere of How to Carve an Angel at the International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales this past June.
Peter Thabit Jones is a native of Swansea, Wales. His first American book of poems, The Lizard Catchers is now in its third edition and his poem Kilvey Hill has been incorporated into a permanent stained-glass window in the new Saint Thomas Community Academy in Swansea, the work of leading stained-glass artist Catrin Jones of Wales. Peter toured America with Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas in 2008 giving readings and workshops from New York to California. He has tutored Children's Literature, Adult Literature, and Creative Writing for the Adult Education Department at Swansea University, Wales, for seventeen years.
He is the founder and editor of award-winning The Seventh Quarry/Swansea Poetry Magazine. Additionally, his poem Bereavement, from his American book The Lizard Catchers, was one of the poems broadcast on September 11th, 2007, on New York's Long Island by The North Sea Poetry Scene's Art Forum television presentation. His poems have been translated into over twenty languages. A 200 page bilingual collection (English/Romanian), Whispers of the Soul, featuring poems by Peter and America's Vince Clemente, was published in Romania in 2008 and a bilingual Romanian/English collection of poems, A Bucket of Sky, is forthcoming. In collaboration with Aeronwy Thomas, he wrote and narrated the first-ever Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, New York (2008) for the Wales International Centre, New York/Welsh Assembly Government currently available in a DVD version. Peter launched the Dylan Thomas in Wales/American Students Visiting Project in March 2010. During his 3rd American tour in 2010, he conducted poetry readings in New York and California.
John Dotson works as poet, playwright, performer, sculptor, and educator. His most recent collection of poetry is Rivulets of Light, Poems of Point Lobos and Carmel Bay. The book Love For Ever Meridian: Finding Dylan Thomas in the 21st Century is forthcoming. John is developing the libretto for a musical-theater production focusing on Carmel, "the soul of California." With Lisa Maroski, he is developing a musical-theater drama about George Eastman and the Kodak Company. His play Without Why was staged in Carmel in 2007, and his first play, It's Always Something, was produced in Kingsport, Tennessee, John's hometown, in 2001.