Poe's Night of Brandy and Roses Comes to an End

I blame Obama. Who can afford brandy and roses anymore?

For the past 61 years, in the hours between midnight and 5:30 a.m. of Jan. 19, a mysterious, dark-clad figure has slipped into the churchyard of Westminster Presbyterian in Baltimore to leave three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. On Tuesday, for the first time since 1949, the "Poe Toaster" failed to show.