Wish List

We welcome contributions of goods and services as well as money. We can always use donated office supplies. Other items on our current wish list are pre-paid telephone cards, transferable Frequent Flyer miles for faculty travel, new recycling bins for the museum, good coffee and a couple of carafe-style coffee dispensers for the conferences, and local lodging for our summer interns.

We’re also inviting donations of money for these specific purposes:
— apple tree saplings and native perennials for the gardens overseen by Owen Wormser
— new and replacement botanical markers and poem panels for the Poetry Trail
— another sealed museum case for display of Robert Frost’s limited-edition Christmas cards
— preservationist-approved paint for the badly peeling front room in the museum, Frost’s former study

Grants and Donations

During 2007, we received grants from the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Foundation (Poetry Trail panels), the General Federation of Womens Clubs–NH (Poets in the Schools), Knox Family Foundation and the Mosaic Foundation (general), the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (Young Poets and Teaching conferences), the New Hampshire Humanities Council (Teaching conference), and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts (two grants, for general operations and 2007 programs). We’ve received very welcome gifts to fund financial aid for conference participants, including the Murray Alboher Scholarship for Teachers, the Anne L. Fitzpatrick Fellowships for Festival and Seminar poets, two Donald Sheehan Fellowships from the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) Program at Dartmouth College, two conference scholarships from the Creative Writing Program at Dartmouth, and two Designer Gold scholarships for a young poet and a teacher who were finalists in New Hampshire’s Poetry Out Loud recitation competition. And we’re grateful for generous donations from many individuals, whose 2007 contributions will be listed in our winter 2008 newsletter.

Dartmouth Fellows and Interns

A special thank you to our 2007 post-graduate fellow Todd Wooster, who has done wonderful work this summer as a conference assistant and museum docent, and who has lived in Frost’s former home during the early and latter months of the summer with support from the Creative Writing Program / Department of English at Dartmouth College, which for the second year in a row (following Travis Helms in 2006) has allowed The Frost Place to offer a second residency, in this case for a young poet. Dartmouth’s Creative Writing Program also helped fund an internship for Valerie Arvidson, who spent August redesigning and refreshing our museum exhibits. Valerie said of her Franconia sojourn, “I don't know if I’ve ever felt so relaxed and rejuvenated. I believe it is the mountains and the trees and the air — and of course the poetry, and the people who have made me feel so welcome and comfortable, and inspired!”