{"id":547,"date":"2009-01-21T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:37:55","slug":"the-poe-family-bible-to-go-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"The Poe Family Bible to Go on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/edgarallenpoe.jpg\" alt=\"edgarallenpoe\" title=\"edgarallenpoe\" width=\"183\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-548\" \/>Last Monday (January 19, 2009) was <a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/19\/edgar-allan-poe-at-200\/?hp\">the 200th birthday of Edgar Allen Poe<\/a>. Now I see that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lva.lib.va.us\/\"> Library of Virginia<\/a>, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemuseum.org\/\">Poe Museum<\/a>, is preparing an exhibition dealing with Poe&#8217;s life and works. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be the Poe Family Bible. The exhibition is scheduled to open July 18, 2009. <\/p>\n<p>This Bible includes genealogical information including birth and death dates of Poe family members, as well as notes on marriages. The earliest family information dates to 1725. A sketch of the Poe family burial plot at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is included. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happynews.com\/news\/1202009\/poe%20family%20bible%20display%20richmond.htm\">see the January 20, 2009 edition of Happy News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view\/2009_01_19_EMC_helps_Poe_Museum_Museum_preserve__display_artifacts:_The_tell-tale_arts\/srvc=home&#038;position=also\">Read another very good article<\/a> on digitization projects that will make the fragile Poe Family Bible accessible, as well as information on the Poe Museum, from the January 19, 2009 Boston Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday (January 19, 2009) was the 200th birthday of Edgar Allen Poe. Now I see that the Library of Virginia, in partnership with the Poe Museum, is preparing an exhibition dealing with Poe&#8217;s life and works. The centerpiece of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=547\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Poe Family Bible to Go on Display<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,105,67,70,79,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-family-bibles","category-libraries","category-museums","category-surnames","category-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}