6/23/2023 0 Comments Jack marilynne robinson![]() ![]() “I prefer to think of my favorite writers off somewhere writing.” Because of the pandemic, though, it had been months since she had left her summer house, by a lake in Saratoga Springs, so she was open to an adventure. She does not generally like visiting the houses of writers gone from this world. Time and wind and winter storms have had their way with them, and today only one remains.Įarlier this summer, Marilynne Robinson followed a path through the fallow field that used to be Frost’s orchard, then looked for a long time at the last of his plantings. ![]() ![]() A hundred years ago, Robert Frost bought a ninety-acre farm near South Shaftsbury, Vermont it came with an old stone house and a pair of barns, but he also wanted an orchard, so he planted hundreds of apple trees. ![]()
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