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Baltimore's mysterious visitor honors Edgar Allan Poe with ritual of cognac and roses

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20030119
Author:FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer

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Dateline: BALTIMORE With his face hidden beneath a dark hood, a man crept into a bitterly cold downtown graveyard before dawn on Sunday and raised a solitary birthday toast to Edgar Allan Poe.

Continuing a 54-year tradition, the man, whose identity remains unknown, put his hand on Poe's tombstone, bowed, placed three red roses and a half-empty bottle of Martel cognac on the grave and then silently slipped back into the shadows.

A huge, pale-white moon glowed over the city, yet the man still eluded dozens people who waited in their cars or huddled together on the sidewalk ...

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