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For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave site in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19 — his birthday. Three roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac would be left. But ...
A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer's birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ...
BALTIMORE – For the 57th straight year, a mystery man paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer's grave to mark his birthday. Some of the 25 ...
Sorrow for the lost ‘Poe Toaster’: No cognac, roses left at grave. By Michael Muskal writer . Jan. 19, 2012 10:42 AM PT . ... curator of the city’s Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, ...
FILE - In a Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 file photo, the original grave of Edgar Allen Poe is shown with a bottle of cognac and roses left by a mysterious visitor, in Baltimore.
It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on ...
In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, the tortured literary maestro was reportedly laid to rest at Westminster Church and Cemetery in West Baltimore where he remains for eternity. Or maybe not. Sam Porpora ...
News National News Mystery visitor to Poe’s grave a no-show Cynthia Pelayo, of Chicago, leaves roses and cognac at the burial site of Edgar Allen Poe Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 in Baltimore.
AP Photo/Steve Ruark Roses lie near the original burial place of author Edgar Allan Poe Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 at Westminster Church and Cemetery in Baltimore. A mysterious visitor, who has ...
“Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography” (Arthur Hobson Quinn, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941): A well-written, sympathetic biography and one of the standards.
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