Exploring the poets of Goshen’s past
More than just story tellers and novelists made up the history of Goshen’s written words. In this space we take time to highlight the poets of our community.
Double Wedding of Two Brothers and Two Sisters – Nettie Taylor
On October 11, 1876, Ida Farr married Hial Nelson, and Sarah Farr married John Nelson in a double ceremony at Oren Farr’s farm on Brickyard Road in Goshen, NH. The following poem was written for and read at the wedding anniversary of the Nelson brothers.
The following Goshen poets we are working to put their stories and works online. Please come back to see our progress.
Harry Elmore Hurd –
– Possessions of a Sky Pilot (1923)
– Mountains & Molehills: Essays and Poems (1926)
– Desert Sky Hawks (1936)
– Yankee boundaries (1949)
– West of Eden (1934)
– West of East (1934)
Harold Roberts –
Althine F. Lear –
– Goshen Celebration August 1919
