Poe Roundup (HPL's idol)

News excerpts.

Poe Toaster is 'Nevermore': No gift of cognac and roses left at poet's grave, ending decades-long tradition
By Liz F. Kay | liz.kay@baltsun.com
Baltimore Sun
8:36 a.m. EST, January 19, 2010
"Longtime tribute to Edgar Allan ends with the absence of the "Poe Toaster (for more than half a century has marked the poet's birthday by laying roses and a bottle of cognac at his original grave site). The first time since Jan. 19, 1949 that the person failed to arrive."

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Poe kin to have say on city with best claim to legacy
Descendants will announce preference at Poe Museum in Va.
January 10, 2010
By Chris Kaltenbach | chris.kaltenbach@baltsun.com
"Saturday in Richmond, Va., Poe's actual descendants will announce which city - whether Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Richmond - has the greatest claim to their illustrious ancestor."

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Nothing grim about this guy
By: Gwen Shrift
phillyBurbs.com

A cheerful watercolor portrait from around 1843 is none other than Edgar Allan Poe, author of such macabre. This likeness, by portraitist A.C. Smith, was purchased for a few dollars from an estate and is expected to fetch $50,000 or more at auction this weekend. According to the Associated Press, the portrait shows Poe as the successful — and apparently charming — man of letters that he was in the mid-19th century.