Happy 200th Birthday, Edgar Allen Poe!

Poe turns 200 today, and several Poe cities are throwing parties.
This wasn’t necessarily the case back at the first 100-mark. I found an article from December 1908 decrying the lack of planned celebrations.

New York Times, December 12, 1908, Saturday
Section: REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page BR772
CORRESPONDENT Call attention to the fact that the one hundredth anniversary of [...]