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		<title>The Disposition of the Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remarks by Dr. Harry Lee Poe Convener of the Poe Family Reunion President, Poe Museum During his lifetime, one of the great concerns of Edgar Poe was what to do with the body. He stuffed them up chimneys. He bricked them up in the basement and in the catacombs. He hid them under the floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall 2009 Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fall 2009 Newsletter is now available. In this edition, learn about the man who paid for Poe&#8217;s funeral. Also, Poe museum president, Dr. Harry Lee is going on an extensive lecture tour.  Find out where he&#8217;s headed.  We have the latest information about events and recent goings on.  Take a look. Fall 2009 Newsletter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Inspired by Poe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed the poetry reading last night at the Poe Museum, we are posting one of the Poe-inspired poems read at the event by J. Ronald Smith, Poet in Residence at St. Christopher&#8217;s School. The following poem imagines one of Poe&#8217;s 1849 visits to the home of his last fiancee, Elmira Shelton, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Poe Travel Package</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richmond&#8217;s Linden Row Inn (www.lindenrowinn.com) is located on the site of the &#8220;Enchanted Garden&#8221; where a teenaged Poe once courted his first fiancée Elmira Royster. One of Poe&#8217;s boyhood homes stood directly across the street from this historic 1840s inn. As Richmond celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Poe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poe Bicentennial Birthday Bash Schedule of Events for January 19, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 Midnight: Champagne Toast at the Poe Shrine Kick off the day&#8217;s festivities in the shadows of the Poe Museum&#8217;s Enchanted Garden in a shrine built 87 years ago in Poe&#8217;s honor from the bricks salvaged from the office in which Poe began his career in journalism. 2 AM: Victorian Séance Make contact with Poe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poe200th.com/blog/poe-bicentennial-birthday-bash-schedule-of-events-for-january-19-2009/</link>
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		<title>Poe Commemorative Stamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;ve got some exciting news that I have been dying to share but unable to until it was no longer considereed confidential. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a Poe bicentennial commemorative stamp in 2009 and, appropriately, it will be unveiled here in Richmond. The first issue event will be held at Library of Virginia on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poe200th.com/blog/poe-commemorative-stamp/</link>
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		<title>Vertigo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Poe Museum&#8217;s screening of Vertigowent off as planned&#8211;in spite of the rain. A group of true cinephiles huddled together under a large tent to witness Hitchcock&#8217;s masterpiece while the rain pounded the tent. If you have not yet had the opportunity to watch a movie outdoors in a storm, you should definitely try it. Nothing heightens the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solve the Mystery of Poe&#8217;s Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cause of Poe&#8217;s death remains a mystery 159 years after the fact. Theories abound, but none has become the definitive explanation. Now we are asking you to help solve the mystery. Check out some of the clues gathered from primary sources at http://poe200th.com/students-mystery.php. On October 5, 2008 at the Poe Museum&#8217;s Poe Memorial Service, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poe in Comics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t technically related to the bicentennial, but the exhibit of Poe in the comics is still running at the Poe Museum. For those of you who haven&#8217;t had a chance to see it, you still have until the end of October visit. Even those of you who are not particularly interested in comic books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We started the countdown clock on www.poe200th.com months ago and every time I think we finally have a completed roster of events for 2009, we come up with some new idea or find a new partner to help us celebrate Poe&#8217;s life and works. Discussions of Poe always seem to lead to some new horizon [...]]]></description>
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