Edgar Allan Poe, the master of mystery, was born January 19, 1809. One of America’s most influential writers, Poe’s stories and poems - works like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and The Raven” - continue to entertain readers over two hundred years after his birth. Poe is heralded as the inventor of the detective story with his tales of master sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, a character who influenced the genesis of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and many more of literature’s classic detectives.
Poe’s works (as well as his life story) have been fodder for so many adaptations over the years, and many of his tales were presented on the air during the Golden Age of Radio. Shows like Escape, The Weird Circle, Suspense, and Mystery in the Air presented Poe’s stories to thrill and chill their listeners.
The three-day protest of Kentucky coal miners who blocked a railroad track in fury over unpaid wages ended Wednesday night in a victory for the few miners who remained, with the company paying all wages demanded by a small band of miners in Pike County who blocked a train and drew national attention to their cause.
Dylan Davidson, a mining machine operator and roof bolter for American Resources Corporation, and one of the few miners who remained Wednesday, said the small group of protesting miners packed up and left at nightfall after receiving payment for overtime pay, vacation days and all other money owed to them for work they had already completed.
