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"A city known for a bell that's broken and a delicacy that's Cheez Whiz-ed wants to up its cultural clout - by stealing Edgar Allan Poe from Baltimore.
"We're Taking Poe Back," read the headline in Philadelphia's City Paper last week. Arguing that Philly's claim on Poe is greater than Baltimore's, the article urges Philadelphians to "reclaim our macabre, prodigal son" in time for the 2009 bicentennial of Poe's birth.
"This is a literary grave robbing," reporter Edward Pettit began.
"I want to exhume his body and translate his remains to the City of Brotherly Love. ... That's because Poe is ours. He belongs to Philadelphia."
I ran that by Jeff Jerome, curator of Charm City's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. He offered this message to the good people of Quaker City: "Keep your greasy, onioned, sub-stained hands off Poe!
We have the body, and we're keeping him -- baltimoresun.com
"We're Taking Poe Back," read the headline in Philadelphia's City Paper last week. Arguing that Philly's claim on Poe is greater than Baltimore's, the article urges Philadelphians to "reclaim our macabre, prodigal son" in time for the 2009 bicentennial of Poe's birth.
"This is a literary grave robbing," reporter Edward Pettit began.
"I want to exhume his body and translate his remains to the City of Brotherly Love. ... That's because Poe is ours. He belongs to Philadelphia."
I ran that by Jeff Jerome, curator of Charm City's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. He offered this message to the good people of Quaker City: "Keep your greasy, onioned, sub-stained hands off Poe!
We have the body, and we're keeping him -- baltimoresun.com