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Robert Frost's spirit lives in Franconia
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19870531
Author:Margo Hammond
FRANCONIA, N.H. In the winter of 1916, Boston Post reporter Carl Wilmore traveled with a horse-driven sleigh, braving below-zero weather, to reach Franconia.
He had heard that a 41-year-old poet who was just achieving worldwide fame had holed himself up in this village - "buried here in the snows in the out-of-the-way corner of the mountains" - and he wanted to check out the story.
When he finally arrived around noon at the white clapboard farmhouse on Ridge Road with its sweeping view of the White Mountains, Wilmore knocked on the back door, asking for Robert Frost - "a good name with ...
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