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Poe Fans Call an End to 'Toaster' Tradition
Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer's grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the "Poe Toaster" shall occur nevermore.
Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome said early Thursday that die-hard fans waited hours past when the tribute bearer normally arrives. But the "Poe Toaster" was a no-show for a third year in a row, leaving another unanswered question in a mystery worthy of the writer's legacy. Poe fans had said they would hold one last vigil this year before calling an end to the tradition.
"It's over with," Jerome said wearily. "It will probably hit me later, but I'm too tired now to feel anything else."
It is thought that the tributes of an anonymous man wearing black clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, who leaves three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's original grave on the writer's birthday, date to at least the 1940s. Late Wednesday, a crowd gathered outside the gates of the burial ground surrounding Westminster Hall to watch for the mysterious visitor, yet only three impersonators appeared, Jerome said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/poe-fans-call-end-toaster-tradition-15391756
FSogol
(45,579 posts)I don't think I heard that visitor referred to that way before this year.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)And it is a well known term:
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)FSogol
(45,579 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)FSogol
(45,579 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)someone desperate for attention may decide to carry on the tradition
morningfog
(18,115 posts)"A few indicated the tradition passed to a new generation before the original visitor's death in the 1990s..."
It would be great for someone to start it up again when the attention dies down, no that it is considered ended.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)why does he need a toaster?
morningfog
(18,115 posts)with such assurance that the tradition will not continue.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Who gave him the toaster? Laura Dern's great-grandmother?