Little lamb

Via Minor Tweaks, I learn that:

Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Yeah, you know, old…whatshername? Okay, so “famous” is maybe a relative concept.

I learned more via CBS News:

They are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house in Sterling where town officials say Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in 1806.Sarah Josepha Hale reportedly published a poem in 1830 about Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb to school with her. Other accounts, however, claim the original writer was a young man who was inspired by the incident.

First Robert Frost’s home was vandalized, now this. Which poet’s house will be next, I wonder? These things always happen in threes, don’t they?