Moments in Time – February 17, 2021

#Middlebury On March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – January 6, 2021

#Middlebury On Jan. 19, 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. In 1836 Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, and completed his first ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Aug. 15, 2018

#Middlebury On Aug. 31, 1888, the first known victim of London serial killer “Jack the Ripper” is found murdered in the city’s impoverished Whitechapel district. At least ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Dec. 31, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY An Old Man’s Winter Night Robert Frost All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – July 31, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Telephone Robert Frost “When I was just as far as I could walk From here to-day, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head against a flower I heard ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – June 3, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Pasture Robert Frost I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 3, 2015

Mowing Robert Frost There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; Perhaps ... Continue Reading →