The Frost Place Museum in Franconia opened for the season Saturday.
The Frost Place works to honor the legacy of Robert Frost while encouraging the creation and appreciation of poems. The museum offers a self-directed tour of Frost’s former home. Visitors are able to tour the rooms where Frost lived and wrote, and view rare signed first editions of his work and family photographs.
The Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place now serves as a gift shop and poetry venue where visitors can enjoy a 20-minute video scripted by Frost’s great-grandson. There is also a quarter-mile Poetry Nature Trail on the property, which winds through Frost’s woods and features Frost’s poems on plaques throughout.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, The Frost Place stands overlooking the White Mountains, a view that Frost savored and can now be appreciated by visitors from all around.
In addition, the museum offers three annual summer poetry programs, two annual poetry competitions, a free poetry reading series, poetry craft talks, workshops open to the public, as well as other community programming and poetry education.
The museum, located at 158 Ridge Road in Franconia, will be open Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day Weekend from 1 to 5 p.m. It will then be open Thursday to Sunday through June from 1 to 5 p.m. Starting July 1, the museum will be open daily, 1 to 5 p.m., and closed Tuesdays. Extended fall foliage hours begin in September.
For more information, call 823-5510, frost@frostplace.org or visit frostplace.org.