A few weeks ago, at least 50 teenagers broke into a historic Vermont farmhouse where Robert Frost once lived and held a drunken gathering, causing an estimated $10,000 worth of damage and destroying many irreplacable artifacts. It was Frost himself who wrote “Good fences make good neighbors”. Perhaps this quaint adage warrants modernizing: “Good security cameras, survellience equipment, and attack dogs make good neighbors.”
Robert Frost spent his summmers and falls at Homer Noble Farm in rural Ripton, Vermont and taught at nearby Middlebury College for over thirty years until his death in 1963. When Frost famously said “I go to school the youth to learn the future,” surely he could not have foreseen the youth of the future playing beer pong in his living room.
At least 20 people have been charged and will receive citations to appear in court, “mostly for unlawful trespass and unlawful mischief”. Perhaps the criminals could curry favor with the judge by using Frost’s own words to admit their guilt: “We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.”
