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Don't Know Much About Minute Robert Frost

2009-08-26T13:58:22.136Z

One of my favorite spots in Vermont is the Frost gravesite in the cemetery of the First Church in Old Bennington--just down the street from the Bennington Monument.

Robert Frost--New England’s poet of snowy woods, stone wall and apple trees.
I hope this “touch of Frost” will inspire you to read some of his work.

Here’s a link to Robert Frost’s page at Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192

It includes an account of Frost and JFK
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20540

After the inagural, Frost told the new President:

“Be more Irish than Harvard. Poetry and power is the formula for another Augustan Age. Don’t be afraid of power.”

This link is to Middlebury College’s online Frost exhibit
http://midddigital.middlebury.edu/local_files/robert_frost/index.html

And finally, hear Robert Frost for yourself at Poets Out Loud:
http://robertfrostoutloud.com/

Don'tKnowMuchAbout Herman Melville

2009-08-19T21:08:10.095Z

From Kenneth C. Davis, author of DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LITERATURE.

Don'tKnowMuchAbout 14th Amendment

2009-08-19T20:40:09.288Z

This videoblog is about the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment is one of the three Reconstruction Amendments and it granted full citizenship rights to former slaves. It also established the very important judicial concepts of due process of law and equal protection. Both of these clauses have been central to some of the most important Supreme Court decisions in recent history including Brown v Board of Education and Roe v Wade.

Don'tKnowMuchAbout George Washington

2009-08-19T20:36:14.062Z

What did George Washington really say when he crossed the Delaware?