April 5, will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Russellville Rotary Club meeting. The club has been active and ongoing since that time and continues to serve the Russellville
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What if Edgar Allan Poe had remained at West Point in 1831? Would the “Master of Macabre” be remembered today as a great military leader, perhaps a top officer in the Civil War?
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature. Poe was the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore. After his mother died in Richmond, Virginia, in