January 2nd, 2008 - 10:09 PM
Robert Frost's Vermont Home Vandalized
AP
Posted: 2008-01-02 14:21:05
Filed Under: Crime News, Nation News
RIPTON, Vt. (Jan. 2) - A former 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.
Homer Noble Farm was ransacked last week during a party attended by as many as 50 people, Sgt. Lee Hodsden said.
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, on a dead-end road off Route 125.
