Poe's birthday

Each year on January 19th a mysterious person dressed in black appears in the graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe is buried and leaves precisely three red roses and a half-bottle of cognac.




Check out this link for Poe-celebration activities, including a wine-tasting related to the short story we'll be reading in a few weeks...

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20090109_Boston__Philly__Baltimore_go_toe-to-toe_over_Poe.html

pic credits: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg