The Caledonian-Record | Former Home of Poet Robert Frost Vandalized

In And Out The Window; my photo from 

The Homer Noble Farm, Ripton, VT

This past summer I visited what is one of the most important sites in Vermont: the Ripton home of Robert Frost. I also walked the Frost Interpretive Trail and had lunch at the Frost Wayside. Frost also summered in my area, around Lake Willoughby, in his younger years. Click those links to view my photos.  The vandalism reported below is shocking. I hope the people involved come to understand the damage that they caused.

The Caledonian-Record | Former Home of Poet Robert Frost Vandalized

Monday, December 31, 2007
VT News; Associated Press

RIPTON, Vt. (AP) _ A former home of famous 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.

The 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, according to Sgt. Lee Hodsden.

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, 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, which is located on a dead-end road off Route 125.

The damage, which was estimated at $5,000, 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 farm from 1939 to 1963.

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Photowalk: Robert Frost National Recreational Trail

I took a photowalk on the Robert Frost Trail in Ripton on Friday. You can join the walk and view all of the photos on Flickr. You can read all of my comments, which include all of the poems that are used on the trail.

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Photo Hunters: Paper: Robert Frost

A view of the Green Mountains from the home
of Robert Frost in Ripton, Vermont

Going for Water
from A Boy's Will, 1915

                The well was dry beside the door,
                And so we went with pail and can
                Across the fields behind the house
                To seek the brook if still it ran;
                Not loth to have excuse to go,
                Because the autumn eve was fair
                (Though chill), because the fields were ours,
                And by the brook our woods were there.
                We ran as if to meet the moon
                That slowly dawned behind the trees,
                The barren boughs without the leaves,
                Without the birds, without the breeze.
                But once within the wood, we paused
                Like gnomes that hid us from the moon,
                Ready to run to hiding new
                With laughter when she found us soon.
                Each laid on other a staying hand
                To listen ere we dared to look,
                And in the hush we joined to make
                We heard, we knew we heard the brook.
                A note as from a single place,
                A slender tinkling fall that made
                Now drops that floated on the pool
                Like pearls, and now a silver blade.

(Frost wrote his poems on paper.)
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