Comments on: Like It Or Not, Poe Was A Boston Boy http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eddiecrowe http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday/comment-page-1#comment-29919 Eddiecrowe Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:58:00 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13965#comment-29919 Brilliant deduction!! and I'm living the same sort of story right now and for the last ten years here in Baltimore. 6 of Baltimores top radio personalities are in my story behind a hometown novelty song called Fishin on the Chesapeake Bay that I wrote and sang over the phone and got on the radio. That was in 2001 on the #1 morning show. I have the radio recording. hear it and others read the full story. Baltimore also claims Poe and others,but didn't do a damn thing to help any of them or recognize their talent when they were here. No star has ever been discovered here. There are no breaks to be had here. If I can't do it with that song and that story No one ever will nor should they bother trying.I could teach a coarse on that subject at the peabody conservatory.When the student passes I hand them all a road map out of here. Cause this ain't the place. A very wise man once told me. Baltimore is a great place to be FROM. This is only achieved by LEAVING Everyone here is stuck here looking for a way out. No one wants to see anyone else find a way out. i found a way out but i'm being robbed, Baltimore IS the Chesapeake Bay but none of this will see the light of day in the MEDIA until I'm dead. And that song will be kickin forever. http://www.soundclick.com/ecbu Brilliant deduction!! and I’m living the same sort of story right now and for the last ten years here in Baltimore. 6 of Baltimores top radio personalities are in my story behind a hometown novelty song called Fishin on the Chesapeake Bay that I wrote and sang over the phone and got on the radio. That was in 2001 on the #1 morning show. I have the radio recording. hear it and others read the full story. Baltimore also claims Poe and others,but didn’t do a damn thing to help any of them or recognize their talent when they were here. No star has ever been discovered here. There are no breaks to be had here. If I can’t do it with that song and that story No one ever will nor should they bother trying.I could teach a coarse on that subject at the peabody conservatory.When the student passes I hand them all a road map out of here. Cause this ain’t the place.
A very wise man once told me. Baltimore is a great place to be FROM. This is only achieved by LEAVING
Everyone here is stuck here looking for a way out. No one wants to see anyone else find a way out. i found a way out but i’m being robbed, Baltimore IS the Chesapeake Bay but none of this will see the light of day in the MEDIA until I’m dead. And that song will be kickin forever.
http://www.soundclick.com/ecbu

]]> By: sara http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday/comment-page-1#comment-7414 sara Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:30:14 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13965#comment-7414 I am a lonely but hot woman longing to meet someone special on here. Are you interested? If yes, you may want to leave check my pics under the name sweetnsassy4u on the famous hot goth site G o t h i c f l i r t s .c o m. I think everyone need to meet some miracle after all the terrible stuff in the news . I am a lonely but hot woman longing to meet someone special on here. Are you interested? If yes, you may want to leave check my pics under the name sweetnsassy4u on the famous hot goth site G o t h i c f l i r t s .c o m. I think everyone need to meet some miracle after all the terrible stuff in the news .

]]> By: Wonhee http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday/comment-page-1#comment-7365 Wonhee Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:51:15 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13965#comment-7365 I don't believe that Poe liked his town. It's just a feeling that I have, like the Tell-Tale's Heart who hears the heart beating. For me, I feel something that just says "No." I don’t believe that Poe liked his town. It’s just a feeling that I have, like the Tell-Tale’s Heart who hears the heart beating. For me, I feel something that just says “No.”

]]> By: Philly Poe Guy http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday/comment-page-1#comment-7328 Philly Poe Guy Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:48:57 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13965#comment-7328 I actually learned a lot about Edgar Allan Poe's Boston connections at our debate last month and at the new exhibition in the Boston Public Library. Poe was not just accidentally born there (his mother lived there) and the writers of that city did help him hone his craft because he hated most of their literary values (except fame). But this still doesn't make a good case for Boston as the central place for Poe's literary legacy. Poe may have sharpened his skills on the whetstone of Boston's literary traditions, but he forged his sword in Philadelphia. Or how about another sports metaphor: Should the Philadelphia Flyers claim Bobby Orr's Boston Bruin hockey legacy because he played so well against the Flyers? No, fierce opposition makes a player/writer stronger, but it doesn't outweigh the tradition that helped create it. In Paul Lewis' logic, Bobby Orr is a Flyer (or Canadien or Black Hawk). I actually learned a lot about Edgar Allan Poe’s Boston connections at our debate last month and at the new exhibition in the Boston Public Library. Poe was not just accidentally born there (his mother lived there) and the writers of that city did help him hone his craft because he hated most of their literary values (except fame). But this still doesn’t make a good case for Boston as the central place for Poe’s literary legacy.

Poe may have sharpened his skills on the whetstone of Boston’s literary traditions, but he forged his sword in Philadelphia.

Or how about another sports metaphor: Should the Philadelphia Flyers claim Bobby Orr’s Boston Bruin hockey legacy because he played so well against the Flyers? No, fierce opposition makes a player/writer stronger, but it doesn’t outweigh the tradition that helped create it. In Paul Lewis’ logic, Bobby Orr is a Flyer (or Canadien or Black Hawk).

]]> By: Philip Phillips http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/19/poes-bday/comment-page-1#comment-7283 Philip Phillips Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:58:17 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13965#comment-7283 Congratulations to Professor Paul Lewis for his exhibit at the Boston Public Library highlighting Poe's relationship with Boston and for another fine interview. This article represents one more step towards setting the record straight concerning Poe and the city of his birth. Philadelphians can say what they want, but I agree with Professor Lewis that Boston has a stronger, though less obvious, claim to Poe than Philadelphia. While Philadelphia offered Poe an environment in which he wrote many of his best-known works, Boston was his "home," the city of his birth and the stage upon which he most wanted to be accepted. Poe's literary aesthetic developed in opposition to some of Boston's most prominent men and women of letters, bringing out both the best and the worst in Poe. Sometimes the most acrimonious relationships are the most significant. Such, I believe, is the case with Poe and Boston. Congratulations to Professor Paul Lewis for his exhibit at the Boston Public Library highlighting Poe’s relationship with Boston and for another fine interview. This article represents one more step towards setting the record straight concerning Poe and the city of his birth. Philadelphians can say what they want, but I agree with Professor Lewis that Boston has a stronger, though less obvious, claim to Poe than Philadelphia. While Philadelphia offered Poe an environment in which he wrote many of his best-known works, Boston was his “home,” the city of his birth and the stage upon which he most wanted to be accepted. Poe’s literary aesthetic developed in opposition to some of Boston’s most prominent men and women of letters, bringing out both the best and the worst in Poe. Sometimes the most acrimonious relationships are the most significant. Such, I believe, is the case with Poe and Boston.

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