Partygoers Vandalize Robert Frost's Home
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Laureate's Farmhouse Ravaged By Revelers
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Homer Noble Farm, a former Vermont home of poet Robert Frost, has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture in what police say was an underage drinking party, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. (AP Graphics Bank)
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Homer Noble Farm, a former Frost residence that's now a historic landmark, was ransacked late Friday night during a party attended by up to 50 people, Sgt. Lee Hodsden said Monday.
The intruders broke a window to get into the two-story wood frame building - a furnished residence open in the summer - before destroying tables and chairs, pictures, windows, light fixtures and dishes. Wicker furniture and dressers were smashed and thrown into a fireplace and burned, apparently to provide heat in the unheated building, he said.
Empty beer bottles and cans, plastic cups and cellophane apparently used to hold marijuana were also found, according to Hodsden. The vandals vomited in the living room and discharged two fire extinguishers inside the building.
Police found empty alcohol containers and vomit on the floor, reports CBS News affiliate WCAX-TV.
Robert Frost's farm is a historic site owned and maintained by Middlebury College.
No arrests have been made, Hodsden said, adding that they have tracked down some partygoers and believe they are minors.
The damage was discovered Saturday by a hiker who notified police at Middlebury College, which maintains the site. The cabin's caretaker was last there at 10 a.m. Friday, police said.
Frost, a celebrated New England poet known for such verse as "The Road Not Taken" and "The Gift Outright," died in 1963. He summered at the home from 1939 to 1963.
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See all 35 CommentsThere are rich folks there. There are poor ones like my people. Ihave heard that line *my child would not do that*. Yer wrong. When they get with their mates ye have no idea what he/she will do. Yer raise them right if ye raise them at all. Most don''t.
They are too busy getting high and drunk, like most kids today- worthless and useless, sickening what they did to this historic house.
A good punishment would be a court ordered destruction of their own bedrooms and personal property- they come home from school to find their bedroom and everything they owned- computer, video games, bong, clothes all SHREADED and heaped into a pile in the middle of the room, with liberal quantities of fresh dog chit and raw sewage sprinkled about the room.
See how they feel then :)
His house is in the village, though.
He will not see me stopping here,
To write my name in yellow snow.
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