No Poe Toaster
http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/01/mysterious-poe-toaster-did-not-surface-edgar-allan-poes-205th-birthday/357157/
Sigh. The original Toaster was really the only one. He was actually known to the curator of the Poe House, so it's not entirely a mystery. He apparently left the tradition to his son about ten years ago, who didn't treat it very seriously, and gave up on the practice a couple of years ago. It's okay, a lot of us still toast the old boy; perhaps not in Baltimore in the darkest night, but we still toast him.
Sigh. The original Toaster was really the only one. He was actually known to the curator of the Poe House, so it's not entirely a mystery. He apparently left the tradition to his son about ten years ago, who didn't treat it very seriously, and gave up on the practice a couple of years ago. It's okay, a lot of us still toast the old boy; perhaps not in Baltimore in the darkest night, but we still toast him.
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