A report on New England, Vermont and Robert Frost

Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England

Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777

A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre

A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys

The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where he wrote many of his poems, including "Tree at My Window" and "Mending Wall".

An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world." The epitaph engraved on his tomb is an excerpt from his poem "The Lesson for Today".

The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737.

1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union

The Frost family grave in Bennington Old Cemetery

New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy

Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.

The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers

Robert Frost Hall at Southern New Hampshire University

Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912.

"The Road Not Taken", as featured in Mountain Interval (1916)

Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c.1910–1913

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies.

Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).

A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north.

A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts

Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.

Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont

The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.

The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont

A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020

Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.

Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington

Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine.

World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.

Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.

The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.

The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont

The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.

The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university

Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire

A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon

Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)

The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier

Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.

Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.

New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.

Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century

Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity.

A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont

Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras.

New England regionalist poet Robert Frost

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island

A Hartford Line Train at Hartford Union Station

The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts.

Bill Russell and Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics

The New England Patriots are the most popular professional sports team in New England.

The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Vermont is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

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On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.

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Robert Frost who was descibred as an "artistic institution" frequently wrote about rural New England life.

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The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876

Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library

1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin

Köppen climate types of New Hampshire, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities

Mount Adams (5774 ft) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range.

Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains

Autumn leaves on many hardwood trees in New Hampshire turn colors, attracting many tourists

Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data.

The New Hampshire State House in Concord

Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.

Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008

Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air

Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892.

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States.

It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

Prominent individuals from New Hampshire include 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce, founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, rock musician Ronnie James Dio, author Dan Brown, actor Adam Sandler, inventor Dean Kamen, comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Meyers, restaurateurs Richard and Maurice McDonald, and WWE wrestler Triple H, aka Paul Michael Levesque.