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Comment on: Students bring poetry to Newburyport Literary Festival - A&E - Boston.com
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Comment on: Stephen King and wife Tabitha donate to Poe statue - Boston.com
Thank you for this article. This gift from Stephen and Tabitha King means so much to the Poe Foundationâs ongoing effort to raise the funds needed to cover the cost of creating, installing, and main more »
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Comment on: Vision for an Edgar Allan Poe memorial in Boston comes closer to reality - Downtown - Your Town - Boston.com
Thank you for this article. On behalf of the Poe Foundation of Bostonâs board of directors, sculptor Stefanie Rocknak, and, indeed, on behalf of Edgar Allan Poe himself, thank you to everyone who su more »
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Comment on: Novelist Stephen King donates to Edgar Allan Poe statue project - Back Bay - Your Town - Boston.com
The gift from Stephen and Tabitha King means so much to the Poe Foundationâs ongoing effort to raise the funds needed to cover the cost of creating, installing, and maintaining the Poe statue. If we more »
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Comment on: Brian McGrory: Tough landing for roaming bear - Metro - The Boston Globe
My sister-in-law said: "Poor bear, I think they shot her down before she had a chance to return those hot pink capris from Bloomies. They made her look fat." more »
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Comment on: Poe â we hardly knew ye - Arts - The Boston Globe
Heck. Punctuation at the end of the two links above need to be removed or they won't work. Better use them here: The Poe Square Public Artwork Public Forum http://poeboston.blogspot.com The Raven in t more »
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Comment on: Poe â we hardly knew ye - Arts - The Boston Globe
Alex Beam would have to be in New York last Superbowl Sunday to write this column. Even his dubious-sounding "amicable" cup of coffee with BC's Poe professor seems to contain little or no factual repo more »
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Comment on: Three finalists to present plans for Edgar Allen Poe memorial in Boston - Books - The Boston Globe
There should not be a comma in the URL for the Poe Square Public Artwork Public Forum. So I have re-posted a corrected comment. Again, please pardon the errors. more »
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Comment on: Three finalists to present plans for Edgar Allen Poe memorial in Boston - Books - The Boston Globe
Images of all three Poe Square design proposals, as well as summaries of the artists' "statements of intent," can be seen at http://poeboston.blogspot.com/ - the new blog that has been set up by the o more »
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Comment on: Three finalists to present plans for Edgar Allen Poe memorial in Boston - Books - The Boston Globe
Apologies for the typo. I meant "to view." more »
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Comment on: Three finalists to present plans for Edgar Allen Poe memorial in Boston - Books - The Boston Globe
Images of all three Poe Square design proposals, as well as summaries of the artists' "statements of intent," can be seen at http://poeboston.blogspot.com/, the new blog that has been set up by the or more »
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Comment on: 'Baltimore cuts off funding for Poe House'
I hope Baltimore can find a way to continue to support the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. Poe is so important to that city's cultural heritage. But the nation should be grateful if it did. We can b more »
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For more about Poe's connections to Boston, check out
the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Inc. website at
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Comment on: 'Nonprofit group Fairy Dogparents founded to help owners who face losing their pets for financial reasons'
Dear Fairy Dogparents: You deserve a medal for awesomeness. more »
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Comment on: 'Patrons fear for fate of Boston library branches'
The photo of the young girl at Washington Village says it all: Our libraries are our lifeboats. They can't be replaced by computers. more »
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Comment on: 'Dubious distinctions'
Whatever eventually goes there, it's not going to be called Menino Towers. more »
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Comment on: Menino%20floats%20library%2C%20community%20center%20closures
The Massachusetts Library Association and others are sponsoring a rally in support of public libraries in front of the State House at 11 am, Tuesday, March 9th. There is an excellent piece on Boston's more »
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Comment on: In crisis, Boston libraries need better board, more private funds - The Boston Globe
To inspire substantial private donations in the future â such as, for example, the $6.8 million Dorchesterâs Thomas Drey gifted to the Kirstein Business Branch in 2000 â it would be helpful if t more »
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Comment on: 'Show of emotions'
Even the sadness and unexpected difficulties showed the opening ceremonies to be beautifully, inspiringly, humanly, and still magically done. How lucky are we to have Canada for our neighbors? more »
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Comment on: 'Lightening up before the serious business of Patriots-Ravens'
I bet Poe would pick the Patriots Sunday: Check out The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston, a free exhibition that just opened at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square more »
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Comment on: Book by âA Bostonianâ fetches $662K at N.Y. auction - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe
You are cordially invited to a free exhibition at the Boston Public Library The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe & the City of Boston December 17, 2009 - March 31, 2010 For details about Openin more »
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Comment on: 'BPL stirs regret with business branch move'
Of course, it's all about the millions in the trust fund. Talk about expanding hours after squeezing the Kirstein into the basement at Copley when the branch already stays open for 30% more hours per more »
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Comment on: 'The lens of 'Eddie Coyle': No film offers a truer view of Boston'
Two more good Boston crime movies were The Boston Strangler with Tony Curtis and Peter Fonda in 1968 and The Brink Job (1978) with Peter Falk and Peter Boyle. more »
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Comment on: 'The lens of 'Eddie Coyle': No film offers a truer view of Boston'
Must mention Spencer Tracy as Frank Skeffington (certainly based on Mayor James Michael Curley) in The Last Hurrah (1958). And the 'burbs should count, so don't forget the People of Mass. vs. W. R. Gr more »
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Comment on: 'The lens of 'Eddie Coyle': No film offers a truer view of Boston'
"The doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle ..." In 1982, Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in The Verdict was pis more »
In October 1845, William W. Caldwell of Newburyport, Mass. was one of Edgar Allan Poe's few defenders during his literary battles with elite "Frogpondians" based in Boston. See http://www.eapoe.org/pe more »