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Square to be named for man who hated Boston

By adamg - 4/23/09 - 11:29 am

Joel Brown reports the intersection of Charles Street South and Boylston Street will be named Edgar Allan Poe Square on Monday at 11 a.m.

Brown notes the irony of Tom Menino officially renaming the square for Poe - who derided Boston as "Frogpondia" and couldn't wait to get out of his hometown - because Menino just announced he's running for re-election and Poe died during a drunken binge while campaigning for some Baltimore politician running for re-election.

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Quoth the Mayor:

By Finn - 4/23/09 - 12:25 pm

Quoth the Mayor: "Nevah-moah!"

Nice

By neilv - 4/23/09 - 12:34 pm

Boston should find a way to capitalize on our natural resource of wit.

nice job finn

By bostnkid - 4/23/09 - 1:29 pm

that is some funny stuff. the mayors press conference was classic/brutal/hilarious.

But We Already Have An Edgar Allan Poe Square

By Charles Swift (not verified) - 4/23/09 - 12:37 pm

The other Edgar Allan Poe Square is going to be very unhappy: http://bostonhistory.typepad.com/notes_on_the_urban_condit/2007/01/edgar_allen_poe.html

Hope they spell it right

By Jingles (not verified) - 4/23/09 - 3:28 pm

The map showing the "original" EAP square spells the middle name "Allen," instead of the correct "Allan." I hope the city gets it right this time.

Dammit, gizoogle seems to be down

By eeka - 4/23/09 - 1:09 pm

Gizoogle.com had a version of The Raven that included such gems as "nevermizzle."

http://1smootshort.blogspot.com

Are you sure he hated Boston

By Othemts - 4/23/09 - 8:09 pm

And wasn't just angling for a better contract by playing Boston off against other cities?

I can't believe he could be

By anon (not verified) - 4/23/09 - 8:20 pm

I can't believe he could be that mean to Bostonians--rrridddupp.

poe

By cox (not verified) - 4/24/09 - 11:09 am

The old Poe square no longer exists. Nevermore

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