TDW 1788 - The Final Days Of Edgar Allan Poe
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tear it up stickers not nearly enough
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now Memorial Day employ Baltimore
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Maryland the stomping grounds of the one
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and only Edgar Allan po check out this
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this mural right here painted that's
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it's quite a few years old they call
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these row homes some of them are pretty
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incredible looking check this one out
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completely covered in foliage the
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architecture is amazing the windows look
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at these windows up
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top no one's living in them completely
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abandoned painting on the side of a
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twocan some of the doors are completely
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open and
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accessible not the most structurally
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sound buildings that's for sure this
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painted signs have been there since
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probably the turn of the century maybe
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even longer than that
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absolutely incredible welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here and in the midst of
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this neighborhood is the
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Homestead of the man himself Mr Poe and
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the famous window where his writing desk
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was right up there in that top window
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it's my second channel daily Vlog
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channel
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it's the daily W he shared this home
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with his invalid grandmother his first
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cousin and his aunt who was desperately
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poor but still willing to provide a home
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for her temperamental young nephew but
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you don't want to stop and stay too long
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there is a
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2hour parking limit though so if you
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stand here for more than 120
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Minutes Matt Penfield will come out
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scold you according to this placard in
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1972 the building itself was put on the
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National Registry of historical places
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this area here where they're doing
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construction at the time he resided here
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was a pig
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farm and he would look out that very
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window
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sill with his pen and paper there are a
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few other onlookers including Dan Bell
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standing over there talking to a local
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photographer it was here that he decided
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to turn his hand from writing poetry to
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fiction and also a little fact he ended
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up marrying Virginia clim
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who was actually his cousin not able to
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get inside today but you've been inside
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the building before Oh yes and you were
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saying there's a guest book in there and
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a certain someone wrote something
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interesting and who was that someone
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yeah uh Vincent Price stopped by the
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house uh I believe in the 7s or ' 80s I
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can't recall when but anyway he said
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he's the the entry says this place gives
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me the creeps Vincent Price yeah the one
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and only Vincent Price and Stephen King
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came here with his son too really yeah
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Stephen King brought his son here and
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they uh they were at an Orioles game and
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they came over here to see the Edgar
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Island po house walking through downtown
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now and the interesting thing about
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Baltimore is there is a cemetery smack
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dab in between all of the large
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buildings and that's where I'm heading
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over across the road
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there right here
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amongst all the traffic and commuters
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businesses and offices if you walk all
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the way to the back of the cemetery it's
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where he was originally buried and then
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later on they moved them closer to the
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front so we're going to take a look at
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the original location first through this
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door that is locked there are some
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underground catacombs that go directly
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under the
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church and the graves themselves can't
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get in
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there there's another interesting piece
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here that was featured on Ripley Believe
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It or Not the way this piece of marble
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is
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bending it's very unusual you rarely
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will
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see that type of stone or Rock bending
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in that fashion but it's true believe it
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or not normally when someone is moved
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from one spot to another there really
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isn't anything
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designating the the original spot this
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is an exception however there is a
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headstone where he was originally placed
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which would have been here even though
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he's not here anymore people are
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leaving letters and
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flowers to where his body once was
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intuned that's a little different you
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normally don't see that the Raven carved
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in the
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top and right next to the
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location is the final resting place of
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his grandfather David Poe senior October
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8th 1849 on a cold and damp overcast
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Monday
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afternoon right here as you make your
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way down this pathway which also serves
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as a water drainage area there is a seat
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here but don't be fooled this was not
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created to sit on it's actually two
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graves one there and another one a step
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up leading into that window walking
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around the side of the church why do you
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think they moved him up to the front
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what was the purpose of well it they
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wanted to put him in a more prominent uh
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location kind of like a touristy thing
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get people to come to town but they they
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redid that a long time ago it was just
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it was just about prominence cuz is too
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many people are coming to visit they
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don't want him trouncing back to the
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back yeah and I think it was out of
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respect that he was such a you know like
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a literary genius
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um that he was you know he is the most
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famous person buried here so they moved
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him to the front and erected this
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monument and he's now
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located right here that's where we just
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were right
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here this is where I'm
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standing
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currently he was moved in the
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1800s I thought it was a little more in
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recent days but it's actually a very
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long time ago that they moved the body
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from the back back up to the front
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November 17th of
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1875 and here is an artist rendition of
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what happened the
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unveiling on that day this is a photo of
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the house where I was earlier this
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building has been completely removed
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there's that
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window and not only is he ined here but
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also his wife's
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mother and on this side stay
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that his wife also lays here right next
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to the
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traffic the hubub the
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Holo of any downtown people passing by
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you have to wonder how many have no clue
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at
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all that they are passing
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by the legend himself so this is all
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like you know in really good condition
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Everything clean cuz people haven't been
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touching it so then over here everyone
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puts their hands on this they do
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rubbings a lot of people you can see
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here this is all from people doing
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rubbings so they put the wax paper over
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it and then they do a rubbing of it but
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that's why it's so you put a piece of
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paper over this and like a pencil or
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something yeah and then you rub and you
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can get the grave rubbing I never
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thought about doing that that would be
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interesting but I could see how it
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definitely causes permanent damage yeah
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it damages the the
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uh it can be restored but they should
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really put like something over it over
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it that used to be the only entryway
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into the property but over time when
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more and more people wanted to come pay
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their respects they built a second set
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of gates down on the end closer to the
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monument one thing this city has is
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personality oozing from every angle just
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look
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at these old buildings
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everywhere incredible
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oh my gosh look there's a horse
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here and a carriage a rather obscure
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piece of History tying into the story
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happened inside this building here that
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is known as the Latrobe house in October
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1833 these three gentlemen poured over
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manuscripts submitted in a literary
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contest sponsored by The Baltimore Sun
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visitor their unanimous Choice was a
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tale by
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this gentleman right here at the time an
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unknown pennil author that's the new
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doorbell but back in the day this was
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the doorbell system you would pull on
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this and it would what would it do like
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ring a bell inside yeah yeah it would
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you would pull it back and forth it
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would ring a bell so if you just did
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that over and over and over and over and
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over they would get very irritated yes
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it's a good thing it's not working
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anymore because whoever actually resides
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inside here they would not like that I
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was doing that but it doesn't work
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anymore that's just a relic of the past
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you have to wonder what if he had not
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won that contest what if he did not get
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the $50 prize would he have continued to
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write things like that always make me go
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H stories so it has all of his stories
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in one
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book here's another one
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here The Narrative of Arthur Gordon
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Pim great Tales
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including the
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Raven Tales of mystery and
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Imagination downtown Baltimore you can
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come check out a
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book here's um barones which is uh the
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story that um that they think he wrote
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it's not very long story but in his
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house right yes in the house oh here it
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is yeah right there he would have been
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looking out that window misy is a
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manifold out at the pigs when he wrote
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that
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pretty
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cool this whole area is known as the
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Oldtown Mall a couple stores are open
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but the majority of
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it is closed and
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incredible doesn't get much more retro
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than that light fixture
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right there I think someone has taken a
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crowbar tried to get in the back of that
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door the parking lot has not had a car
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in in quite some time completely grown
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over with weeds it's just on the
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outskirts of downtown in fact a pretty
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good view of the skyline going to get
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some dinner now at
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Chaps pit
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beef and this is what we're dealing with
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look how good this looks and it's going
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to even be even better with a little dab
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of
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BBQ sauce on it and I got some potato
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salad and we are
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sharing some
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good heading to a couple more spots to
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tie it with the subject
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matter this building here to the left
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used to be a hospital and this
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is where he
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died inside that structure erected in
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1836 he was brought here ill and
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semiconscious on October 3rd
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1849 died 4 days later
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whatever you
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do don't look
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down we wandered around all inside found
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something on the Internet and they said
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there's a placard on the room outside of
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where he actually died we couldn't find
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it you found a website that gave the
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information and we pretty much meandered
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the entire premises and found
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nothing nothing now heading into an area
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of town called Fels point for one last
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stop the last on the PO tour the horse
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you came in on and according to this
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washboard it is America's oldest Saloon
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established in
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1775 and it was his last stop that's
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where he had his last beverage now no
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one knows for certain but some of the
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stories will tell you he was inside
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having a few drinks at the bar heavily
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documented now with photos and
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paraphernalia of the man himself so when
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you're in here hanging out you can see
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Edgar Allen almost like he's vicariously
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hanging out with you but they say he
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exited the bar and upon doing that there
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are rumors Not only was he drunk but he
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was beaten up and left for dead that's
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when he went to the
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hospital and his
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life came to an
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end who knows if it's really true it's a
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subject of speculation on how how it all
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ended
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