Derry is drained by Beaver Brook. The highest point in the town is Warner Hill, at 605 feet above sea level, where from the top one can see the Boston skyline on a clear day. Derry lies almost fully within the Merrimack River watershed, with a small section along the northern border of town lying in the Piscataqua River watershed. – from Wikipedia
A gift from his grandfather, the Derry farm was home to Robert Frost (1874-1963) and his family from 1906 to 1911. Now a National Historic Landmark, visitors can easily imagine the years Frost lived and worked here, teaching at the nearby Pinkerton Academy, raising chickens, and finding inspiration in landscape and labor for his poetry, including “Mending Wall” and “Pastures”. Furnishings, some original, reflect the Frost years, while an outside trail leads to sites that inspired the poet, including the stone wall and stream.
Robert Frost Farm is open on weekends mid-May to mid-June, 10-5; and mid-June to Labor Day, Monday-Saturday, 10-5, and Sunday noon-5. See the Robert Frost Farm website for directions, admission fees, upcoming events, and biographical and historical information.
From “Mending Wall”
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'