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Ever since English teacher Tim Rogers ’79 learned that Edgar Allan Poe had visited Episcopal in 1847 and recited “The Raven” on Hoxton Circle, he knew he had wanted to recreate that experience with his American Literature students — something he has now done for 25 years. This year, in his final year at Episcopal after decades in the classroom, the moment carried special weight for the devoted teacher.

Standing on Front Drive with his students gathered around him, Rogers led the group in reading Poe’s haunting verses aloud, in the same words spoken by their author on that very ground nearly 200 years earlier. “How many times can I have a class stand on the same patch of earth that one of our literary giants did? To read the same words that were spoken aloud by their author nearly 200 years earlier? It was an English teacher’s dream — just another blessing I’ve received as part of this faculty,” Rogers shared.