Robert Frost home vandalized in Vermont

Yahoo News ^ | December 31, 2007 | Hildy

[Hildy]

What a shame. For the life of me, I can't understand things like this. I was no angel when I was a teenager, and I did some pretty shameful things, but this kind of wholesale destruction of property belonging to others is just incomprehensible to me.

[NonValueAdded]

Someone chose the wrong fork to follow

[JoanVarga]

Better fences make better neighbors.

-Joan

[marktwain]

There is lots of evidence there. All the offenders should be made to provide restitution.

As for punishment, caning strikes me as very reasonable.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Fifty crazed drunken dope-smoking underage intruders “stopping by the woods on a snowy evening”.

[proudofthesouth]

Emotionally I’ve been an adult since I was 6 years old.

When I was 12 years old, I stood in the middle of the street screaming at a friend of mine cause she had toilet papered and egged homes the night before (Halloween). I couldn’t understand how she could do something so irresponsible and stupid.

I’m just a few months shy of 51 and I STILL don’t understand vandalism.

[Dixie Yooper]

Back in the 70’s when I was in high school, there were plenty of “not very responsible parents” who would let their kids throw parties at their lake cabins or hunting camps. We never had a need to break into someones property to have fun on a Friday or Saturday night. I guess those kind of parents are not found in that part of Vermont.

[Past Your Eyes]

Who trashed this place, we don’t yet know.
They’ll soon be apprehended, though.

He must have moved around a lot. There are two Robert Frost places here in NH.

[NonValueAdded]

Actually, I was taught that Frost poem was railing :) against fences. If so, I wonder what Frost might think now about barbed and razor wire around his summer home.

[raccoonradio]

>>by a hiker who notified police at Middlebury College, which maintains the site

at first I thought this was the farm/home just north of
Bennington, which I visited a couple years ago, but maybe this one is up near, or in, Ripton VT (nr Middlebury). Also
near Middlebury is the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail,
a place where you can take a walk through the woods and
read some of his poems posted at various places.

Did search: it’s this place.
http://www.frostfriends.org/ripton.html

[raccoonradio]

>>Along the same road is the Robert Frost Trail, a nice hike along varied scenes annotated with Frost's poems. The trail was developed by the Green Mountain National Forest with the help of one of Frost's old Middlebury friends, Reginald Cook - known at the college as "Doc Cook". He chose the poems appropriate for the trail and supervised the installation of the plaques. Cook is the author of numerous critical works on Frost including two full length books.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

My little horse must think it queer
to see fifty vandals chugging beer

[brytlea]

I think it is caused by the belief that one is the center or the universe, hence anything that pleases one is acceptable.
susie

[brytlea]

Or perhaps this group had already trashed all of those homes and so went in search of new digs.
susie

[Mr. Jazzy]

Wasn’t me.

[BlazingArizona]

but this kind of wholesale destruction of property belonging to others is just incomprehensible to me.

Especially in Vermont! Doesn't everybody there work for Pottery Barn and run a B&B on the side?

[Dixie Yooper]

Especially in Vermont! Doesn't everybody there work for Pottery Barn and run a B&B on the side?

This is what happens when it's too cold to scoop ice cream for Ben & Jerry.

[TBP]

“The things not taken?”

[TBP]

Someone chose the wrong fork to follow

As my favorite Yogi once said, "When you come to the fork in teh road, take it."

[JoanVarga]

Of course he was making a poetic point about artificial boundaries more than just fences. But his “neighbor” in that poem was the practical thinker. Good boundaries make for good relationships, usually. Good fences just make good sense.

:o)