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Mencken House: A home, and legacy, to treasure
Despite what you may have heard, the "house museum" is not dead in Baltimore City. The H.L. Mencken House (officially closed since 1997 by the bankruptcy of the City Life Museums) has had more than 100 visitors during two recent weekends. The Johns...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Tourism and Leisure, James Thurber, Hollins Market, H.L. Mencken
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Poe House deserves a better fate
As an out-of-state educator who has brought students to the Poe House and attended many events sponsored by and for the Baltimore Poe House for the last 20 years, I am rather distressed by the article that I read in your paper ("Poe House could join...Tags: Museums
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Ghosthunters setting up at Poe House for TV show
For a guy who's been dead some 160 years, Edgar Allan Poe's not getting much rest.
A team of ghost hunters from the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based TV program "Ghost Detectives" will be spending this weekend at the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum and at Fells...Tags: Concerts, Museums, Unexplained Phenomena, Music, Edgar Allan Poe
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Newfound Poe manuscript to be displayed in Richmond
A handwritten draft of one of Edgar Allan Poe's earliest poems and a letter to author Washington Irving are among a handful of items that will be part of an exhibit opening April 26 at a Richmond, Va., museum devoted to the writer. "This is the kind of...
Tags: Museums, Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, Gertrude Stein, Washington Irving
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Poe statue slated for Boston
Even as Edgar Allan Poe's continuing presence in Baltimore remains uncertain, another East Coast city —the one in which the celebrated author was born — is preparing to honor him with a bronze statue.
Poe partisans in Boston have chosen New...Tags: Arts, Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe, Sculpture
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Edgar Allan Poe to get new statue in Boston
Boston may be slipping ahead in the Edgar Allan Poe arms race -- the city is preparing for a new bronze statue to honor the great author, even as Baltimore struggles to preserve his former home. The Baltimore Sun's Chris Kaltenbach reports that...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe, Sculpture
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Preserving our past: Ownership isn't the issue
What is the future for Baltimore's city-owned historic properties? The Baltimore Sun has reported that Baltimore City is hiring an appraisal firm to determine the "market value" of 15 city-owned historic properties. Baltimore Heritage has asked...
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Don't sell off Baltimore's heritage, flaunt it instead
Baltimore is one of the oldest cities in the United States, with a wealth of history and historical landmarks. It's amazing how the City Council thinks it owns those historic landmarks ("Ownership isn't the issue," April 4). How presumptuous of them to...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure, Inner Harbor, Pikesville
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Poe House could operate as part of the B&O Museum
A consultant charged by city officials with exploring ways of keeping Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum open and making it self-sufficient is recommending that it be operated in partnership with the nearby B&O Railroad Museum.
Under the...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, National Football League, Museums, Literature
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Edgar Allan Poe graveside "toaster" doesn't show -- again. Is tradition over?
Is one of Baltimore's quirkiest traditions -- the Poe toaster -- dead? In the dark of night, on Jan. 19, the author's birthday, a mysterious, anonymous toaster had for years left cognac and roses at his grave outside Westminster Hall. Now that the...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe
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No limit for the Goruck Challenge
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen likens the Goruck Challenge to a tour of a city, "except you're not on a bus." Devin Maier recalled how for some "it's like playingG.I. Joe," and others look at it as a weekend escape from their 9-to-5 jobs — one that includes...Tags: Arts, Federal Hill, Inner Harbor, Manhattan (New York City), Roosevelt Island
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Psychics to try and summon spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
Mr. Poe, the microphone is yours.
A group of selected mediums and psychics will be spending a March weekend trying to reach Edgar Allan Poe, the literary giant and creator of the modern detective story who has made Baltimore his permanent home since...Tags: Museums, Edgar Allan Poe, Museums
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