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Thursday, January 27, 2011

It's Not Over Till It's Over --Poe Toaster Lives!

I was there -- the Poe Toaster came

By Michael Madden

Baltimore Sun 2:25 PM EST, January 26, 2011

Yes, Virginia, there is a Poe Toaster.

Now that smoke from the supposed failure of the Poe Toaster to materialize on Jan. 19 has cleared, it is time to consider the fundamental question: Did the Poe Toaster appear, or not?

I was among the crowd gathered outside the graveyard at Baltimore's Westminster Hall, hoping for a glimpse of the Poe Toaster — the mysterious visitor who, since 1949, had crept unnoticed into the ancient graveyard on that date, leaving cognac and flowers on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. . . .
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