Poe in Wonderland

Attended a Candlelight Fever concert with the Bridgerton music. Beautiful quartet. Held in an old chapel by candlelight.

ASTOUNDING NEWS! On this day in 1844, Mr. Poe's Balloon Hoax appeared in the New York Sun, citing that the “Atlantic Ocean has been actually traversed in a balloon, and in the incredibly brief period of Three Days! Eight persons have crossed in the machine." Mr. Poe set up his hoax almost a year earlier, publishing, under the pseudonym John Wise, an article in the newspaper Spirit of the Times that stated that a “well-known balloonist plans to take a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 1844.” Your admin can picture Mr. Poe giddily waiting until almost a year had passed in anticipation of publishing his great hoax.

You can read more about Mr. Poe's Balloon Hoax here: thepoeblog.org/poes-great-balloon-hoax-part-1/ and thepoeblog.org/poes-balloon-hoax-part-ii/

Would love to go. Check this out.

Happy 217th Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Many happy more. Evermore.