Sydney Sweeney, Edgar Allan Poe and the Red Death

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, ...
On January 19, 1809, the great Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In school, I read many of his tales. Poe was a true literary genius.
A traveling pop-up speakeasy is coming to Ridgewood in February. Sip on themed cocktails as Poe historians and actors retell ...