Poe Funeral is October 10, 2009

[jehanni]

It's never too early to mark your calendar:

www.poebicentennial.com says :

The major event after January will be the funeral for Edgar Allan Poe complete with a horse drawn hearse with period coffin and body. This promises to be the big event of the bicentennial. The date will be Saturday, October 10, 2009. Due to the high level of interest two

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[padawansguide]

It's a long way off, but assuming nothing prevents me from going, I definitely want to do it!

John Astin said he'd be there when we talked to him. I'm sure it's not official, of course...

[sadievale]

Me too, definitely plan on going if I can help it! I'm sure if 'we' (Loren or others if we get his contact info) bug Jeff as he said to, we can learn more as they plan it further...It sounded like they really would love to have us come again, in Victorian mourning this time for the funeral: sounds like great fun!