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Charles Dickens Meets Edgar Allan Poe
Poe (left) and Dickens (right) Charles Dickens turned 200 today. Many readers know the novels of Dickens, but few may know that he and Poe were personally acquainted. Edgar Allan Poe was an admirer of...
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Poe and Leap-Year
Today is February 29th, a leap day, which marks the bicentennial of the first leap-year Edgar Allan Poe ever experienced during his lifetime. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase...
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An Appeal from Poe Foundation President Harry Lee Poe
Dear Friends of Poe, A couple weeks ago we convened the Poe Museum’s fifth Edgar Allan Poe Young Writers’ Conference. This year we hosted ten students from seven different states from Massachusetts to...
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Do you love literature and want to instill a love of reading and writing in future generations? Here’s something you can do today to help the Poe Museum cultivate that love of the written word for...
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Last Day to Help the Poe Museum Win the Amazing Raise
This is the last day of the Community Foundation’s Amazing Raise. You have until 6 P.M. today to help the Poe Museum win prizes in this exciting fundraising competition. Your donation of $50 could win...
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A Message from Poe Museum President Harry L. Poe
Dear Friend of the Poe Museum, This morning two busloads of students arrived at the Poe Museum. In addition to touring the museum’s exhibits, the groups participated in a scavenger hunt, watched a...
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Help the Poe Museum Win the Amazing Raise
Do you love a good book? Do you want to help a new generation of readers share your love of literature? Here’s something you can do about it: For the next day and a half the Poe Museum will be...
View ArticleA Letter from the Poe Foundation’s President
Dear Poe Museum Supporter, Several years ago a young boy was touring Virginia with his family when they decided to pull off the highway for a visit to the Poe Museum. Earlier this year in an...
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Edgar the Cat Receives a Gift
Edgar, one of the Poe Museum’s feline mascots, received a gift yesterday from admirer. Trish Foxwell, author of A Visitors’ Guide to the Literary South, sent a coffee mug she designed with Edgar’s...
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Help the Poe Museum Win the 2014 Amazing Raise
Do you love a good book? Do you want to help a new generation of readers share your love of literature? Here’s something you can do about it: For the next day and a half the Poe Museum will be...
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