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Edgar Allan Poe at Fort Necessity NB
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Tickets are $15 per person for non-members. Members of the Friends of Fort Necessity can purchase tickets for $12, which includes early access to seating. Discounted tickets are available for student groups at $10 per student.Dates & Times
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Ticket holders may check in at the Visitor Center as early as 5:30 p.m., but general seating will not open until 5:45 p.m.
Description
Edgar Allan Poe returns once more to Fort Necessity, just in time for Halloween! Poe, who was born in 1809, is portrayed by literary historian Rob Velella. He will read a combination of Poe's well-known and lesser-known works. Poe will also explain his reasons for writing the way he did and take questions from those in attendance. Photographs welcome. The recommended age for these programs is 13 and up.
Rob Velella is an independent literary historian and playwright specializing in American literature of the 19th century. As a scholar, Velella has published articles and presented academic papers on figures as varied as Margaret Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Walt Whitman. Nicknamed the “Prometheus of American literary scholarship,” he has taken his research outside of academia by lecturing at various historical sites, libraries, and colleges from Pennsylvania to Maine. He has worked on museum exhibits at the Boston Public Library and at Houghton Library at Harvard University. In his ongoing efforts to bring the writers of yesterday back to the readers of today, he has dramatically brought to life literary figures Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, for which he has been featured on National Public Radio and the LA Review of Books.
The Friends of Fort Necessity is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Fort Necessity National Battlefield. The group works in partnership with the National Park Service to provide educational and interpretive programs to accomplish, not only conservation, but plan for improvement projects for the Fort Necessity National Battlefield and the Mount Washington Tavern.
For more information, email FriendsOfFortNecessity@yahoo.com. Fort Necessity is located 11 miles east of Uniontown on Route 40, the National Road.
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