You might be wondering why your Allentown auto dealers would bring up Edgar Allan Poe. It is an odd topic for a car dealer to discuss, but we bring it up because we are based near Philadelphia and recent findings show that the City of Brotherly Love is the official home of the writer extraordinaire.
Before this new claim, people in Boston claimed their city was the official home of Poe because that’s where he was born on January 19, 1809. For awhile, Baltimore residents argued their city should be the official home because that is the town in which he is buried. But a public debate that occurred earlier this week on Poe’s 200th birthday concluded that Philadelphia is a major contender for his official hometown.
The debate was called “Poe Down” and was organized by three people – Paul Lewis, Jeff Jerome and Ed Pettit. Lewis is an English professor at Boston College, Jerome is the curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore and Pettit is a writer that wrote an article in 2007 that argued Poe’s remains should be moved to Philadelphia. “Philadelphia was the crucible of Poe’s imaginative genius,” he said.
Wherever his official home may be, you can take an exciting tour of the places he lived with a new or used car from your Doylestown area Honda dealer. It’s a great way to enjoy a drive through the history of this great nation.