In the Po(e) House

The city that named it's NFL team The Ravens in honor of Edgar Allan Poe has cut funding to the Edgar Allan Poe House.

Baltimore officials have ordered the city's Committee for Historic and Architectural Preservation to implement a plan to operate the museum without using public funds by July 2012.

The museum, in a row house where Poe lived from late 1832 or early 1833 until 1835, operates on an annual budget of $85,000.

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore addresses the issue on it's website











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New York, New York a Helluva Town...

I love New York. My husband and I are both New York natives. He was born and raised on The Lower East Side of Manhattan (or the L.E.S. as it's known). I was born in the burbs but clocked the majority of my years in Brooklyn.

We often watch old films that were shot in New York and play a game where we "guess that location". It's a challenge as this is a town that is constantly evolving. Buildings go up, store fronts come and go but usually you can pick up something in the architecture that's a tip off. My husband usually wins. There is one location however that few people in the world wouldn't recognize, Times Square.

$48- for a set of four at New York First

Imagine how happy I was when I found these coasters. Each one depicts an image of Times Square, as it appeared in each of four decades, 1920, 30, 40 and 50 and are embedded into tumbled Botticino marble.

I'm picking up a few sets. I have a few parties coming up this summer and I think they'd make the perfect host/hostess gifts. While 2 of the hosts are ex-NYers the others just love the city like we do.