I LOVEEEEE that I found this video! Born and bred in the Bronx! I played by this home all the time as a little girl. I lived near the park. I think the Bronx is SO underrated. The land, geologically speaking: is beautiful. Growing up there, you would hear so many awful things,(especially from people who didnt live in the Bronx) basically putting the Bronx down in some demeaning levels. I will never forget it is the people (humans) that turn things into something negative and that has nothing to do with the actual beauty of the Land of the Bronx. Bronx has many wonderful attractions and Poe Park and his home is one of them. Thank you so much for sharing this! Cheers! xx
The cottage is sitting right there in Poe Park. People pass by it all the time and never stop to wonder why there's a house sitting in the middle of a park in the Bronx. Kingsbridge Road & the Grand Concourse.
This video is very well put together and truly places you in Poe's position. Listening to all of the speakers is difficult because the background audio playing is too loud though in comparison.
Is there a creative reason for having the narration and music at the same volume? If the purpose was to make it difficult to understand what's being said, you can give yourselves a pat on the back. Mission accomplished! 👏
I used to live in the west Bronx as a child. .My first memories were the little 1 bedroom walk i' at the end of Morris Ave where it turns and ends at Jerome Ave. When I was older we lived over in University Heights. In my wanderings as a child I discovered a neat little coffee shack On east side of Sedgewick Ave. between two apartment Buildings on a scrap of land just south of Fordham Road . The building looked real old. There was a big sign over the counter that this was one of Poe's favorite spots. It seemed a bit far from his cottage but now that I know his wife was buried near there in makes sense. .Nice to see the park and the tours when I went in the service back in 68 things were a bit rough around the park at night.
i use to work at the one in baltimore md it was hunted i live in baltimore city for all my life i know i miss working there again i moved so its hard for me
Do you folks know that Edgar Allan Poe has a Scottish Connection? The Mystery of "Mar'se Eddie"in the Shire, a Biography of EDGAR ALLAN POE'S Scottish Connections. Self-published by the author, Robert Densmore Brill, M. A., J. D., 885 pages, 2 Volumes, Copyright 2013, Foster City, California. The Poe Museum of Philadelphia, Penn. does. So does the Archive Section (Poe Vertical File), Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., and 33 others to whom I sent complimentary copies for allowing me access to Poe materials. I often quote the Poe biographer, Raymond Foye, The Unknown Poe, who was going to take me to the Fordam Cottage, but I never had time during the 20 years of working on my 2 volume book. No one in PSA, MLA, or other interested Poe scholar would help me get my book published. I am retired from the US Air Force and United Airlines, and not in academia.
Since the time of the video has been uploaded, the cottage underwent a restoration, landscaping, and an alternate side entrance for the handicapable to enter.
Nice video, very informative. But the background music gets a bit too full of itself. It was loud, almost obnoxious, and 11 minutes in, really obscures the speakers.
I have posted a paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier," which is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf
