Sunday, February 06, 2011

Edgar Allan Poe Update

News from The Associated Press: "Baltimore cut funding for the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, one of the strongest links between the literary icon and the city that claims him as its own.

The Poe House must become self-sustaining by the middle of next year or it will close, curator Jeff Jerome and city officials said Friday."

2 comments:

Dan said...

...in a neighborhood immortalized by Johnny Rivers as "The Poe Side of Town."

Undine said...

I'm not surprised by this news--as broke as Baltimore is, the house can't be considered a priority to them.

What I don't understand is how it costs $80,000 a year to maintain it!