Frost Literary Landmark Celebration

On October 24, 2009, the Jones Library will be dedicated as a Robert Frost Literary Landmark. This designation is being awarded by the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations, whose mission includes establishing locations of historical literary significance around the country as Literary Landmarks.

Read the story of Robert Frost and the Jones Library.

• 7:00 p.m., Special Collections, Jones Library
  Frost's Mischievous Grip
  Lecture by William Pritchard (Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College, Frost biographer, and frequent contributor to New York Times Book Review)
  

This event is being held 50 years to the day after the original dedication of the Frost Room at the Jones Library during Amherst's 200th anniversary activities.

• 1:00 p.m., Jones Library front lawn
  Literary Landmark Dedication
  The Library's bronze Literary Landmark plaque will be unveiled in honor of Frost's personal connection with the Jones and its Frost Collection. Ceremony participants include Lesley Francis, Robert Frost's Granddaughter, who will read one of Frost's poems.
  Refreshments in the Jones Library Courtyard
  


• 2:30 to 3:00 p.m., Jones Library Courtyard
  Frost Readers' Theater with Amherst Young People
  Amherst Young People, directed by Children's Librarian, Sondra Radosh, will deliver well-loved poems by Frost, with harp accompaniment.