Rosen und Kognak

Über ein seltsames Geburtstagsritual für Edgar Allan Poe informiert die New York Times am 19.1.02:
BALTIMORE (AP) — A small crowd gathered at the old church where Edgar Allan Poe lies buried, waiting, as they do every year, for the arrival of a stranger.
A black-clad man arrived at 2:59 a.m. Saturday, marking the poet’s birthday with the traditional graveside tribute: three red roses and a half bottle of cognac. Only this and nothing more.
It is a rite that has been carried out by a mysterious stranger every Jan. 19 since 1949, a century after Poe drank himself to death in Baltimore at age 40. – Deutsche Meldung: Kurier 20.1.