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As submitted to the Newburyport High School Annual Favorite Poem by
Steve Cole, Vice-Chairperson of the School Committee, and selected by
the students for reading and commentary at the Firehouse Center for
the Arts event during the Newburyport Literary Festival, April 29, 2007. The
Road Not Taken Then took
the other, as just as fair, And both
that morning equally lay I shall
be telling this with a sigh
"I first found the work to pose simple, yet profound possibilities and questions. What would happen if we took a different path? What are some of the choices that we have made on our road of life? Were they the right choices? Should we have simply turned around, and gone back? "As I have moved along my path of life, along this journey, I have encountered the importance of values, and of how they contribute to the foundation of my life. I found that I am most comfortable with having built that foundation brick by brick. That foundation has made me as understanding, steady, strong, and unwavering as I have needed it to. "Because of that, I believe that we all move along a road that we are destined to travel. On our journey we are strengthened by the foundation that we have built from our life's experience, and the values that we have distilled from that experience. "If we find ourselves needing to advocate, it is the foundation that becomes a fulcrum for our lever of support. "If we find ourselves with an opportunity to inspire, it is that foundation that helps us communicate our ideas and values clearly and with action. "If we find ourselves pursuing an ideal, its that foundation that underpins our desire to clarify our vision and not stop until we reach it. "Let's not be sorry that we did not take the other path. Let's not regret the tough choices that we are to make. And let's not turn around and go back. "If we realize that we may not ever pass this way again, it is because we are destined to proceed as we do. I believe that we are all destined to walk certain paths, and today, I am thankful that our paths have crossed. "The Road Not Taken provides us all an opportunity to consider where we have been, where we are going, and what we have learned along the way. It can be as simple or as profound as we want it to be -- such as is our destiny." Steven
P. Cole
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This
photograph of the sun filtering through a stand of trees growing on
the 5.85-acre wooded parcel off of winding Curzon Mill Road, nearby
to the Maudslay State Park. As related at this link
within ~ in 2004, local advocates for open-space had launched an
effort to purchase the property using $275,000 from the Community Preservation
Committee and a $120,000 loan from the city. A nonprofit group, the
Friends of Curzon Mill Road, was formed to collect money to reimburse
the city, an obligation fulfilled in 2006. |
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