{"id":29001,"date":"2016-05-17T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2016\/05\/17\/robert-frosts-granddaughter-presents-white-fund-lecture\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:57:24","slug":"robert-frosts-granddaughter-presents-white-fund-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/17\/robert-frosts-granddaughter-presents-white-fund-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Frost\u2019s Granddaughter Presents White Fund Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13497\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2016\/05\/Lesley-Lee-Francis-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13497\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2016\/05\/Lesley-Lee-Francis-newsroom-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Frost's granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis will present the June White Fund lecture.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Frost&#8217;s granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis will present the June White Fund lecture.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To the rest of the world he was a renowned poet, author of \u201cThe Road Not Taken,\u201d a former U.S. Poet Laureate, and the poet who recited \u201cThe Gift Outright\u201d at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>To Lesley Lee Francis he was grandfather. A topic she explores and shares in a recently published book \u201cYou Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost, \u201d which is also the title of the White Fund lecture she will present in partnership with Northern Essex Community College on Monday, June 27, at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Heritage State Park, \u00a01 Jackson Street, Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Frost had a strong connection to Lawrence having moved there when he was 11 years old. He attended Lawrence schools before continuing his education at Dartmouth College and later Harvard University. He returned to Lawrence as editor of \u201cThe Lawrence Sentinel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Radcliffe College, she holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Duke University.\u00a0 She was a professor of Spanish language, literature, and history at a number of colleges and universities and ran a summer program in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Now retired from the professional staff of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, D. C., she continues teaching and writing and helps organize the annual Frost Symposium.\u00a0 Dr. Francis has lectured and published extensively on her grandfather. \u00a0Her biographical study, \u201cRobert Frost: An\u00a0 Adventure in Poetry, 1900-1918,\u201d is available in paperback (Transaction Publishers).<\/p>\n<p>She currently lives in Arlington, VA. Her three daughters and six grandchildren live nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The White Fund\u2019s purpose is to have a free series of interactive presentations for Lawrence area adults, youth, and children. The audience is encouraged to seek wisdom, cultural enrichment, and intellectual enhancement by attending and participating.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by a generous financial gift from the Honorable Daniel Appleton White, the White Fund Lecture Series has provided cultural conversation featuring well-known lecturers in fields such as history, literature, travel, the arts, and politics. The White Fund is collaborating with Northern Essex on this series.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information or to be notified of upcoming events in the White Fund Enlightenment Series, contact Analuz Garcia at agarcia@necc.mas.edu or call 978-738-7423 or visit the website www.necc.mass.edu\/whitefund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the rest of the world he was a renowned poet, author of \u201cThe Road Not Taken,\u201d a former U.S. Poet Laureate, and the poet who recited \u201cThe Gift Outright\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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