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Monday, October 12, 2009

More Poe-related media coverage

I saw this on CNN this morning:
Edgar Allan Poe to get a proper burial 160 years later

CNN reported that after his death 160 years ago, the city of Baltimore finally gave Edgar Allen Poe a proper funeral. Apparently the details of Poe's death were not publicly known and only a handful of people attended his funeral. Poe's second send off included a funeral procession with a life-size re-creation of Poe’s body. At Poe's second memorial ceremonies actors portraying writers of Poe’s generation and those he inspired performed eulogizes. The actors portrayed included Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), Ernest Hemmingway
and legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. The Big Read events being hosted locally celebrate the centennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth.

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