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Mr. Poe and I talk about his journey across the Atlantic in 1815, and school in Scotland.
Then the podcast focuses on the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora, and how it very well may have affected Poe (more about that in future episodes.)
Learn how Tambora had lava flows of 1000 degree temperatures!
This episodes ends with an extensive “shout out” to Plainfield, Indiana, and how exPresident Martin Van Buren visited the town. Road conditions were terrible so the town arranged for Van Buren to fall out of his carriage into a mud hole.
Learn how the National Road was really a strip of dirt!
Sources for this episode include Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography and A History of the American Theatre, Volume 1 by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man by Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe by George E. Woodberry from the American Men of Letters series, The Year Without a Summer by William K. Klingman and Nicholas P. Klingman.
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