Robert Frost

Life and Orange County connections

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1. October 30, 1925 Robert Frost gives a lecture and reading in Gerrard Hall The New England poet Robert Frost gave a free lecture and reading in Gerrard Hall, brought by the University's committee on public lectures. The Weekly described him asking the audience whether the South had his swinging birches and wintering cattle, and his remarks on teaching poetry. Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1925, p. 1
2. 1940-1941 Student Richard Adler founds the Carolina Workshop, which starts UNC's Fine Arts Festival According to Richard Adler, then a dramatic art student, he drew up a charter for the Carolina Workshop in 1940 with a $50 University grant to bring the arts before the student body; its first guest was Robert Frost, who read in Hill Hall, and in 1941 it organized the first Fine Arts Festival of student painting, drama and music with a closing professional panel. People: Richard Adler, Robert Frost Place: Hill Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 3, 1985, p. 1
3. 1953 The university gives J. Spencer Love an honorary doctor of laws J. Spencer Love was among the five people the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gave honorary degrees in 1953, a year whose list also included the poet Robert Frost. People: J. Spencer Love, Robert Frost Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: Honorary Degrees Awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1799 to present