edgar allan poe house and museum
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A group of children is playing ball in the courtyard after dark as Anthony W. Batts walks through a high-crime West Baltimore housing project wrapped around the birthplace of author Edgar Allan Poe. - Plan being submitted to the city's Board of Estimates for approval looks to make the Poe House more of a go-to tourist destination
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- Fans pay author's former home a last visit as the city prepares to hand its operation over to a nonprofit group
- Plans call for the Amity Street home of Edgar Allan Poe to reopen in 2013, under the auspices of the nonprofit group Poe Baltimore
- Members of Baltimore's historic preservation commission have been summoned to a closed-door meeting at which, some preservationists say, the board members will be asked to oust the commission's director.
- 'Ghost Detectives' will spend the weekend looking for spirits
- Baltimore's Poe House deserves a better fate than to be consumed by B&O Museum
- Despite Baltimore's closing 15 years ago of the City Life Museums, there remains tremendous interest in the H.L. Mencken House.
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- Consultant suggests partnership between the two West Baltimore museums as key to keeping the Poe House open and making it self-sufficient
- Baltimore's elected leaders should not sell off the city's heritage but use these landmarks to attract tourists instead
- Proposal to sell city-owned historic properties should prompt a renewed effort to inventory and protect Baltimore's heritage
- The Goruck Challenge was started by former Green Beret Jason McCarthy as a way to market his military-grade material rucksack, but the event has grown to more than 50 cities in the U.S. and around the world, including a stop in Baltimore.
- 'Beyond Nevermore' celebration will take place by author's grave March 3-4
- Early Thursday morning, a tired Jeff Jerome, curator of the city's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, "officially" pronounced the Poe-toasting tradition over.
- Halloween revelry at Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds raise money to keep the Poe House open
- Halloween: It's no Valentines Day but Halloween does generate weekend restaurant traffic. On the day itself, families order in.
- The Pita and the Pendulum? Lebanese Taverna hosts party for Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
