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Poe’s Enchanted Garden

March 8, 2023

Join the Poe Museum for an afternoon of family festivities on Saturday, April 1st from 12:00pm-2:00pm. This FREE EVENT is for children and families of all ages.  Enjoy Edgar Allan Poe-themed arts and crafts including coloring, magnetic poetry, black out poetry, and a gardening workshop! Further programming will be brought to you by our wonderful community partners, Richmond Young Writers, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and local author, Phil Hilliker!  Please register HERE or by clicking the "Register here" button below. If you would like to support the Poe ...

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Murders in the Rue Morgue: Dupin Solves a Gruesome Murder

July 3, 2019

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), is the first detective story written by Edgar Allan Poe and is considered to be the first-ever story of the detective genre, In this fictional short-story, the Paris Police Chief (the Prefect) asks Poe’s Detective C. Auguste Dupin to solve the violent murder of a mother and daughter. Dupin first explains ratiocination and how he might apply it to solving crimes. The tale opens with Dupin proclaiming, “The mental features discoursed as the analytical are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.” He regards the unraveling of mysteries as one of ...

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Moldavia: 219 Years Later

June 28, 2019

At an auction held on June 28, 1825, merchant John Allan purchased a Richmond estate. Actually, he purchased parts of three lots from the late Joseph Gallego and the late John Richard. One of those lots included the mansion nicknamed “Moldavia.” The name was granted by earlier owners, Molly and David Randolph. The brick house included a large porch, a mirrored ballroom, an octagon-shaped dining room, and a wide mahogany stairway. It stood on the southeast corner of Main and Fifth Streets in Richmond (it is no longer standing). Allan’s purchase totaled $14,950 — equal to about ...

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Poe’s Tales of Detective Fiction

June 14, 2019

MURRAY ELLISON–Urban crime was an area of acute interest in the nineteenth century in America and Europe because the public feared that it was rampant and out of the control of the police. To respond to this concern, Poe demonstrates increasingly complex aspects of ratiocination in each of his three Auguste C. Dupin detective-based tales. He chose Paris, France for these tales because it had one of the first professional police forces. See photo of a French police officer above (myartprints.co.uk). The term, ratiocination, is not listed in most dictionaries; however, it may be defined by ...

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