Robert Frost's New Hampshire with Maria Farland
Schedule
Wed Nov 20 2024 at 01:30 pm to 02:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03264 | Plymouth, NH
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Robert Frost’s New Hampshire: Rural Backwardness, Agricultural Improvement, and the History of EducationThe lecture will examine Robert Frost’s 1914 book North of Boston through the lens of his links to New Hampshire. It will examine the ways that Frost sought to push back on ideas of rural backwardness and inferiority that were current at the time, especially in rural eugenics and rural improvement initiatives. Frost’s poems responded with impressive specificity to New Hampshire’s changing agriculture, education, rural tourism, and industry. The lecture will discuss Frost’s responses to rural and wilderness tourism, agricultural history, and the history of secondary and higher education in the state. Notably, Frost taught at a school that centered on technical education in agriculture, and the talk will explore the rise of scientific agriculture and agribusiness and the ways the poet’s work responded to those developments. With its highly regional focus, this lecture touches on the White Mountains, Plymouth State, and Rockingham County, and should interest anyone interested in literature, history, education, and the environment.
More info via our website here:
https://www.plymouth.edu/mwm/event/robert-frosts-new-hampshire-rural-backwardness-agricultural-improvement-and-the-history-of-education/
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Where is it happening?
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03264Event Location & Nearby Stays:
