The Byway also interprets American Poet Laureate Robert Frost, the period he spent living and teaching in the area (1900-1911), and the New Hampshire denizens and landscape about which he wrote. Some of Robert Frost’s most important poems were written while he taught at Pinkerton Academy, and he has cited his time in Derry as inspiring much of his work.

The impetus for Frost’s poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” was autobiographical. The setting is Webster’s Corner in Derry, the current intersection of Route 28 and Island Pond Road. On an evening in late December, Mr. Frost paused for a moment while returning home from town after an unsuccessful attempt to sell eggs.  He had been trying to raise money for Christmas gifts...