News at Eleven (Back Page): "We are following the proper etiquette

for funerals. We want to make it as realistic as possible," said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum.

The funeral is arguably the splashiest of a year's worth of events marking the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth. Along with Baltimore--where he spent some of his leanest years in the mid-1830s--Poe lived in or had strong connections to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Richmond.

With the funeral angle covered, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond staged a re-enactment last weekend of his death.

from CBC News: Edgar Allan Poe gets sendoff 160 years later

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