Special event coinciding with AMSAT Symposium

AMSAT North America are holding their Symposium in Baltimore on October 9-11.

Around the same time special events are being held in the city to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe.

Frank Bauer, KA3HD, AMSAT Symposium Co-Chair posted this on the AMSAT Bulletin Board:

Those of you into Edgar Allan Poe there is a special treat if you come to this year's symposium. The famous poet is celebrating his 200th birthday this year. He lived in Baltimore for several years and died and was buried in the city. And there is a Poe Museum at the Baltimore house he lived in before his death.

The year-long commemoration of Poe will culminate with a recreation of his funeral that occurs around the Symposium dates. Poe died on October 7, 1849. There will be a recreation of a wake for Poe from noon to 11 pm at the Poe House. This will be followed up with a mock-funeral for Poe on Sunday October 11 (12:30 and 4:30). John Astin (Gomez Addams from the Addams family fame) will officiate the funeral services.

If you want more information on this, go to the following web sites:
http://www.nevermore2009.com/

http://www.poebicentennial.com/

http://www.annabelleetavern.com/
This "all Poe" tavern was named after one of Poe's last poems, a virtual shrine to Edgar Allan Poe with his poetry covering the walls.

http://www.westminsterhall.org/
Where he is buried.and where a mystery man dresses in black leaves a bottle of cognac and three red roses on Poe's birthday.

If you didn't know it before, now you know why the Baltimore Football team is called the Ravens...

73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
2009 AMSAT Symposium Co-Chair

AMSAT-NA Symposium 2009
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/
2009/index.php