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'Poe Toaster' again a no-show at author's grave; fans say tradition is over
The Associated PressEdgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall occur nevermore. Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome...Tags: Rabies, Customs and Tradition, Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe, Mystery (genre)
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Poe House reopening planned for October
Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week. "That's the official goal. That's the date," said Baltimore-based actor and author Mark Redfield, vice president of Poe...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Digital Harbor High School, Fiction, Prosecution
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Community column, Havre de Grace, celebrating Dr. King's birthday, and others
Coming up dear readers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 21, recognizing his birthday on Jan. 15. This day honors Rev. King's lifelong commitment to equality and unity. Schools and many offices will be closed. A recent addition to this...Tags: Alcohol Addiction, Martin Luther King Day, Edgar Allan Poe, Tuberculosis, Anglicanism
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Poe Museum could reopen in fall
The one-time home of Edgar Allan Poe could reopen for visitors as soon as this autumn, according to one of the people in charge of running the tourist attraction. "Though we're still in the early stages, things are picking up steam," said Mark Redfield,...
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Kevin Bacon, Arts and Culture, Museums, Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe House vandalized while closed during transition
The historic Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, which lost its longtime curator and was shuttered in September amid an operational reorganization, has in the last month been defaced by graffiti and robbed of its wooden front steps, according...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Vandalism
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Street by street, new police commissioner is learning Baltimore
A group of children play ball in the courtyard after dark as Anthony W. Batts walks through a high-crime West Baltimore public housing project wrapped around the Edgar Allan Poe House. It's quiet here, with an officer permanently stationed on-site, but...
Tags: Michael Allen, Anthony W. Batts, Holidays, Halloween, Crime, Law and Justice
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Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House gets revival plan
The financially troubled Edgar Allan Poe House got a lifeline from the city of Baltimore this week, raising hope that the now-closed historic site can be saved. The city agreed to pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to develop a plan for the home/...
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe, Literature, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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B&O Museum to aid Poe House, under proposal
Baltimore will pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to put the Edgar Allan Poe House on the road to becoming a self-sufficient, serious tourist draw, under a proposal approved by the city's Board of Estimates Wednesday. The overriding idea is to turn the...
Tags: Public Officials, Arts and Culture, Politics, Museums, Ellicott City
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Poe House in transition
Edgar Allan Poe was possibly the most original literary talent ever to reside in Baltimore, and his death here, in 1849, at the age of 40 left an indelible mark on the city. Today, the house on North Amity Street, west of downtown, where the writer...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Railway Transportation, Museums, Travel, Transportation
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Poe House bids farewell — for now
Hearing that Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House was about to shut its doors, Connecticut graduate student Brooke Duffy jumped on a bus and headed south Friday morning. "It just really surprised me that the city would have cut off funding for something...
Tags: Anne Arundel Community College
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Poe house to close Friday, hopefully temporarily
Baltimore's beleaguered Edgar Allan Poe House will be shutting its doors Friday, with plans to reopen in 2013 under the auspices of a nonprofit group hoping to increase attendance and make the city landmark self-sufficient. The house, which normally...
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City preservationists summoned to closed-door meeting
Members of Baltimore's historic preservation commission have been summoned to a closed-door meeting Monday at which, some preservationists say, the board members will be asked to oust the commission's director. Board members and preservationists say...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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