Inn that inspired Longfellow: Guests, give us our stuff back
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SUDBURY, Mass. — A historic Massachusetts inn that inspired poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and was once owned by automotive pioneer Henry Ford wants its stuff back — no questions asked.
Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury is celebrating its 300th anniversary by offering amnesty for former guests who may have —ahem — “secretly checked out” inn property. Return it, and management says it won’t pursue criminal charges.
Innkeeper Steve Pickford tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2cjYoAg ) he’s particularly interested in recovering a copy of the Declaration of Independence belonging to Revolutionary War-era innkeeper Ezekiel Howe. It went missing in the 1950s.
Pickford says guests have also absconded with stamped silverware, pewter serving pieces, antique dishes and paintings.
