Archive for January 19th, 2009

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 [...]