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Poe - He was our guy first, but Edgar Allen Poe dissed Boston and Boston returned the love. Now as his birthday is celebrated elsewhere and plans are made for his 2009 bicentennial, old grudges are back to haunt.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070128
Author:Kathleen Burge

CITY WEEKLY

Up and down the East Coast this month, in Baltimore and Richmond and Philadelphia and Charleston, Boston's forgotten native son was toasted. Enthusiasts celebrated the 198th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe by eating cake and listening to "The Raven" and admiring a lock of the long-dead author's hair.

But Boston, the city where Poe was born, was deathly quiet.

It should come as no surprise; it is hard to uncover any tribute to Poe in Boston, or even a mention. His name is not routinely uttered on tours of the city, nor does it appear among the 1,000- plus attractions on ...

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