Poe's Grave Gets Mystery Visit For 57th Straight Year
POSTED: 9:19 am CST January 19, 2006 BALTIMORE -- For the 57th year in a row, a mystery man has paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer's grave to mark his birthday.
But this year, the curator of Baltimore's Poe House and Museum was saddened by disrespectful spectators.
Jeff Jerome said some of the 25 observers at the tiny graveyard early Thursday morning climbed over the walls and were "running all over the place."
The visitor managed to come and go without anyone stopping him.
But because of the disruption, Jerome isn't giving details of what the mystery man was wearing, what he did at Poe's grave, and whether he left anything besides the roses and cognac, such as a note.
Jerome has seen the so-called "Poe Toaster" every Jan. 19 since 1976.
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Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum, holds the three roses and cognac bottle left at Edgar Allan Poe headstone and grave Thursday at Westminster Church in Baltimore.
― andy ---, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― andy --, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)
A photo of the dude.
― andy --, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)
― Heave Ho, Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)
Is this tradition "nevermore?"
A mysterious visitor who for decades has left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe has failed to show up for the anniversary of the writer's birthday.
The curator of the Poe House and Museum in Baltimore says the graveyard tradition dates back to at least 1949 and has never been interrupted before.
Tuesday is the 201st anniversary of Poe's birth and some three dozen fans waited all night with the curator, Jeff Jerome, for the visitor to arrive at the downtown church cemetery.
But early Tuesday, Jerome announced that the visitor, who had always appeared between midnight and 5:30 a.m., never showed. He had no explanation why.
― Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 13:27 (sixteen years ago)
third year in a row he/she didn't show up and they are calling off the vigil
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R.I.P.
― dmr, Friday, 20 January 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)
“It’s over with,” Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum told The A.P. He added, “It will probably hit me later, but I’m too tired now to feel anything else.”
Since 1978 Mr. Jerome has led the vigil for the Poe Toaster at Westminster Hall, which invites other Poe fans but has not been generally open to the public. Last year it saw the appearance of several imposters, including one phony Toaster who arrived in a limousine, The A.P. said, but not the genuine article.
― dmr, Friday, 20 January 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)
dr dr3w out of town, shd've implored him last night at bar to pick up the torch
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)
what kind of society are we that no one has resumed this act of worship?
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:48 (thirteen years ago)