Robert Frost's Birthday

Robert Frost cultivated the image of a rural New England poet with a pleasant disposition, but he was a bit of a curmudgeon, and born on March 26th, 1874 on the west coast, in San Francisco. His personal life was full of tragedy and mayhem, and he suffered from dark depressions.
According to Writer’s Almanac 3/26/08:
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Surfcasting on NPR

Driving around and listening to National Public Radio today Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac came on and he spoke of The Poetry Foundation. A great site for poetry lovers. Check it out. While roaming around the fabulous annals of NPR, I stumbled across this post about an unknown Robert Frost poem discovered by a young graduate [...]