Summer is on its way out, but October is right around the corner, marking the beginning of what Halloween enthusiasts have dubbed “spooky season.”
There’s no better way to kick off the season than celebrating macabre poet Edgar Allen Poe, who died on Oct. 7, 1849. Lady Magpie’s Tea & Curiosities will host a two-hour dessert tea in honor of the occasion 172 years later, to the day.
Lady Magpie’s steampunk-inspired tearoom is fittingly situated inside the Captain’s House (built in 1855) on the…
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