El Orfanato or The Orphanage is a 2007 Spanish film we found one night on Netflix. Listed under “Horror” it is really more of a supernatural ghost story. Both suspenseful and sad and worth watching. The story centers around a young girl, Laura, who lived in an orphanage until one day she is adopted. Leaving the staff and other children behind, she won’t return for 30 years. The film opens with this flashback, and then the story moves to her and her family’s return. Poe in Wonderland is about sharing what we like and it may not always be something happening in the present. We find things all the time that may have been well known to others but new to us. So, a book or movie review on our site is not necessarily going to be a movie that is either upcoming or in theatres now. And, that is…
Happy Birthday to Alice in Wonderland! A day late but nonetheless. Wishing Happy Birthday to the story that began July 4, 1862, on a boating trip with Charles Dodgson and the Liddell sisters. A very merry unbirthday to all of you! https://youtu.be/RdsZT7WKjW8
When we opened our email announcing the reopening of Richmond’s Poe Museum, we learned about a new initiative growing in the city. Mending Walls is a public art project seeking to spark conversation and healing in communities and let the world know that Black Lives Matter. We hope you’ll look them up, and if you have a business, consider allowing them to share their art on your walls. The information below is pulled directly from their website and the Poe Museum’s post. Photo Credit: Mending Walls The Mission Mending Walls is a public art project that brings together public artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create murals that address where we are now in society and how we can move forward through understanding and collaboration. Mending Walls pairs up artists of different backgrounds to create unique connections and give them an opportunity to tell their story collaboratively in an…
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https://youtu.be/NWPoSZo1ms0 Video with Soundtrack Credit: Yestervid.com “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” The Queen in Through the Looking Glass
Frank Lebby Stanton or F. L. Stanton was an American Lyrist born on February 22, 1857 in Atlanta, GA. He was the first professional columnist for the Atlanta Constitution and the first poet laureate for the state of Georgia. Mr. Stanton was often called “the James Whitcomb Riley of the South”; The two writers were close friends who frequently traded poetic ideas. Stanton frequently wrote in the dialect of black southerners and poor whites, although he was an opponent of the less-admirable aspects of the culture in which he lived (such as lynching), and he tended to be compatible in philosophy with the southern progressivism of his employer, the Atlanta Constitution, where he was an editorial writer. (Source: AllPoetry.com) The Graveyard Rabbit In the white moonlight, where the willow waves, He halfway gallops among the graves— A tiny ghost in the gloom and gleam, Content to dwell where the dead…
I DWELL in a lonely house I knowThat vanished many a summer ago,And left no trace but the cellar walls,And a cellar in which the daylight falls,And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. O’er ruined fences the grape-vines shieldThe woods come back to the mowing field;The orchard tree has grown one copseOf new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;The footpath down to the well is healed. I dwell with a strangely aching heartIn that vanished abode there far apartOn that disused and forgotten roadThat has no dust-bath now for the toad.Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; The whippoorwill is coming to shoutAnd hush and cluck and flutter about:I hear him begin far enough awayFull many a time to say his sayBefore he arrives to say it out. It is under the small, dim, summer star.I know not who these mute folk areWho share the unlit place with me–Those…
Need a new binge series on Netflix? Check out Locke and Key which debuted in early February. My 12 year old and I really enjoyed it. Based on the graphic novel series (2008 – 2013) by Joe Hill and illustrator Gabriel Rodriquez. The written series is darker and more ghoulish and not surprising since the writer is related to none other then Stephen King. Yes, his son – Joseph Hillström King – writes under “Joe Hill”. Rodriquez is a Chilean artist who started out with an architectural degree. The tv series is a lighter version of their novels. A supernatural one my tween can watch. https://youtu.be/_EonRi0yQOE The show’s synopsis reads: “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. As the Locke children explore the different keys…
If you’ve ever visited the Poe Museum in Richmond, then you’ve walked up to the bust of Poe featured in their brick pergola. Located in the Enchanted Garden. But, did you know it’s not the original bust and the statue went for a stroll in 1987, aptly in the month of October? Chris Semtner, the museum’s curator, tells the tale below. The images (2018) are ones I took of the actual gifted bust to the museum which they now safely keep inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5DoYUozeQ Video credit: The Poe Museum Photo Credit: Jennifer Graham Photo Credit: Jennifer Graham
I read and enjoyed Hex and reviewed it for others since people pop up online and ask about it.