Originally posted by Chris George on 9-11-2015
Hello all
Baltimore-based writer Janis Wilson and I checked out possible space for the event last Thursday. It could be that it will take place at the University of Baltimore, in which case we would have the space for free for Friday through Sunday as long as we allow free entry to registered students of U of B, which appears to be a good deal to us. We are waiting to hear if we are on for that deal. The cost of the convention starting Friday evening, April 8 with a reception through Sunday, April 10 is to be determined and announced soon. Registrants will be expected to make their own hotel arrangements. Speakers and sessions also to be announced.
There will be an Edgar Allan Poe dimension to the convention. If the event is at the University of Baltimore that is where the statue of Poe is located (see below). A tour of Baltimore to Poe- and Ripper-associated locales is a distinct possibility... well when I say Ripper I mean mainly Francis Tumblety, who lived in a lodging house here and left money in his St. Louis will to Baltimore Cardinal James Gibbons, and intriguingly in a superceded Baltimore will to the Home for Fallen Women on Exeter Street. It so happens that the Home for Fallen Women, now demolished, was not far from where Poe was found on the sidewalk outside a tavern in a dying condition on October 3, 1849 on West Lombard Street, or the hospital on Broadway where he passed away four days later.
Best regards
Chris
Hello all
Baltimore-based writer Janis Wilson and I checked out possible space for the event last Thursday. It could be that it will take place at the University of Baltimore, in which case we would have the space for free for Friday through Sunday as long as we allow free entry to registered students of U of B, which appears to be a good deal to us. We are waiting to hear if we are on for that deal. The cost of the convention starting Friday evening, April 8 with a reception through Sunday, April 10 is to be determined and announced soon. Registrants will be expected to make their own hotel arrangements. Speakers and sessions also to be announced.
There will be an Edgar Allan Poe dimension to the convention. If the event is at the University of Baltimore that is where the statue of Poe is located (see below). A tour of Baltimore to Poe- and Ripper-associated locales is a distinct possibility... well when I say Ripper I mean mainly Francis Tumblety, who lived in a lodging house here and left money in his St. Louis will to Baltimore Cardinal James Gibbons, and intriguingly in a superceded Baltimore will to the Home for Fallen Women on Exeter Street. It so happens that the Home for Fallen Women, now demolished, was not far from where Poe was found on the sidewalk outside a tavern in a dying condition on October 3, 1849 on West Lombard Street, or the hospital on Broadway where he passed away four days later.
Best regards
Chris
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