Narrator Daniel Toomey, who researched and wrote this podcast for the Brattleboro Words Trail, discusses Pulitzer winning poet and playwright Robert Frost's (1874 – 1963) influence and philosophical imprint on Marlboro College. 'The Road Not Taken' is read by William Edelglass, a Philosophy Professor at Marlboro for the last 12 years of its existence (who also provides a more complete reflection on the college and its impact in a longer podcast accompanying this 'bonus' podcast). Edelglass also quotes from Frost poems 'Kitty Hawk' and 'Directive', and the piece ends with a line from that last poem: 'Here are hour waters and your watering place / drink and be whole again / beyond confusion.' Toomey, who also taught at Marlboro College, describes college founder Walter Hendricks devotion to Frost and how he brought him into its 'act of creation'. In the years subsequent to its opening in 1947, Frost spent considerable time on the new Marlboro College campus, visiting the Hendricks family, talking to students informally as a visiting associate in teaching, as Hendricks called his unpaid position, and participating in the 1948 inauguration graduation, as well as the 1950 graduation during which he received from Marlboro his 22nd honorary degree. Frost's democratic and characteristically American ideal of the shoestring start pointed toward a grander notion, carrying echoes from his reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henri Bergson and William James that was at the heart of much of his thinking, forming something out of nothing, making an immaterial idea substantive, convinced that the act of creation itself is the central purpose of our existence.