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The one city that probably will never claim Poe is Boston.
Though he was born there, Poe wrote disdainfully of the city’s literary elite, and his birthplace does not appear among the 1,000-plus attractions on the city’s tourism Web site.
As The Boston Globe pointed out last year, the city has neither a Poe statue nor a Poe museum — only a small plaque commemorating his birthplace on the outside wall of a luggage store.
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Baltimore Has Poe; Philadelphia Wants Him - NYTimes.com
He seems to have had the right attitude about Boston! Anyway, I love a good 150-year-old literary battle.
