The Associated Press ran a story Monday about Baltimore's mysterious "Poe toaster," who last year failed to show for the first time in decades. Will he be back this year, or is the tradition done for good?
From the story:
"Cynthia Pelayo traveled from Chicago to Baltimore to stand overnight in
the shivering cold at the gates of a cemetery, waiting for someone who
never showed up.
This year, she's willing to do it again.
It's a plot twist
Edgar Allan Poe
himself would no doubt find rather amusing. The mysterious visitor who
left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the
anniversary of the writer's Jan. 19 birth failed to make his annual
visit last year, breaking a ritual that began some six decades ago.
End of story? Hardly. If anything, it only deepened the mystery,
attracting more curiosity to a puzzling tradition with tantalizing
clues but no real rhyme or reason."
Read the rest
here.