A mystery that for decades has captured the imaginations of Edgar Allan Poe enthusiasts might have started as “a lark” by a man who claims he was trying to find a way to promote a dying church.
Sam Porpora says he was the first to lay three roses and a bottle of cognac on Poe?s grave on his Jan. 19 birthday.
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