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Edgar Allan Poe Square and Statue

Boston, MA

Near the vanished street where Edgar Allan Poe was born, Boston has installed a dramatic statue of the writer striding forward with a raven and a heart spilling from his suitcase. The surrounding plaza is officially named for Poe, despite his famously complicated relationship with his birth city.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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