January 20, 2008	Sunday	Muharram 10, 1429

NEW HAVEN (Vermont), Jan 19: Twenty-eight people are accused of attending a birthday party and News Year’s celebration that left a former home of poet Robert Frost a mess, with urine and vomit stains and broken antique furniture.

All 28 were charged with trespassing and five with unlawful mischief both misdemeanors related to the Dec 28 party at the Homer Noble Farm house, authorities said.

The farm house had broken windows, broken antique furniture and tables burned in a fireplace. Vomit and urine stained the carpeting, and beer cans, cups and drug paraphernalia were left behind.

The damage was estimated at $10,600. Witnesses said marijuana was used, but no drug charges were filed for lack of evidence, Vermont State Police Sgt. Lee Hodsden said.

The destruction apparently began when a broken chair was thrown into a fireplace being used to heat the building, a furnished residence used in the summer by Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf writer’s programme, Hodsden said.

Frost, the author of “The Road Not Taken” and “The Gift Outright”, summered at the site for more than 20 years before his death in 1963.

A cabin on the property where Frost is said to have done some of his writing was untouched.

Lisa Boudah, Middlebury’s public safety director, said officials are reviewing plans to improve security.—AP