April 24th, 2010
A former teacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission: to create a Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7, the date that Edgar Allan Poe died. Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, launched his new endeavor beginning a 22-state tour of the graves of fallen bards. He’s enlisted 13 current and former state poets laureate to help drum up support.
Smartish Pace