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Teenage partiers trash Robert Frost's Vermont house

Teenage partiers trash archetypal New England poet Robert Frost's Vermont summer house Homer Noble Farm with vandals burning furniture for warmth:

"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.

Empty beer bottles and cans, plastic cups, and cellophane apparently used to hold marijuana were also found, according to [Sgt. Lee] Hodsden. The vandals vomited in the living room and discharged two fire extinguishers inside the building, on a dead-end road off Route 125."

Weird hyperlinking aside:  why does Yahoo News provide a link from the phrase "empty beer bottles" to a Yahoo search window?  Do they think horrified poetry fans will need an explanation of these mysterious objects?        (Image: Friends of Robert Frost)

Death of a Boston bluesman: Weepin' Willie Robinson

Death of a Boston bluesman:  William Lorenzo "Weepin' Willie" Robinson. Weepin' Willie died in a nursing home fire after a long performing career in Boston clubs.  After a variety of jobs including having been a "sharecropper, a soldier, a boxer and, according to his friend, WMFO-FM blues DJ Jim Carty, a grifter and street hustler. A steady position as an emcee/comedian at a Trenton, N.J., nightclub led to his singing career."  He didn't record a CD until he was 73 and still was to become homeless at 78 until assistance brought him off the streets.

Boston Tea Party Museum Burns

But there was nothing significant in the vacant museum building which is due to be replaced by another more extensive site (photo Adam Salsman).