Friday, March 05, 2021

Death and the “Green Fairy”

Who knew that today, March 5, was National Absinthe Day in the United States? Or that this occasion would recall persistent rumors of writer-poet Edgar Allan Poe having been brought down by absinthe poisoning? Mystery Fanfare this morning dismisses the Poe myth, employing information from The Virtual Absinthe Museum.

Although the link Mystery Fanfare provides to that VAM story no longer seems to be working, you can still find the piece here.

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