Poe the Swimmer

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Welcome to celebrate creativity - pisode 423 - Poe the Swimmer

I am going to be taking some time off from this podcast - I think I have had almost 30 episodes in the past month - and devote the time to just doing podcasts and doing them right - with the sound effects and some really fascinating subjects.  

As of today this podcast has had almost 23,000 downloads in nearly 100 countries and territories.  Now for today - well, this episode is largely made up of content from an earlier podcast episode of celebrate Poe - and the information makes up the most downloaded episode by far in the series.  When I started celebrate poe - now celebrate creativity - I expected maybe a handful of downloads at the most - but am amazed at how many people are interested in Edgar Alan Poe, his works, and his times - and now other areas of creativity.

Today’s podcast is about Poe’s swimming across the James River when he was just fifteen - some say sixteen - years old.  We don’t have a great deal of documentation regarding that accomplishment, but the few sentences that were written regarding Poe’s accomplishment at the time show us a physical side of the writer - and even his character - that we very often overlook.   

You know, when you do a podcast the subject stays on your mind, but you have to be careful - at least I do - that you don’t start talking about a subject in conversation that nobody else is interested in.  I know I could talk about Poe all day, but I could just see - ok, I have experienced it - people tactfully changing the subject because I am the only person who is interested in some little seemingly insignificant detail about Poe.  But I have never been with a group that is not fascinated - in some way - by Poe’s long distance swimming accomplishments.  I mean, how many people can say they have swum 6 or 7 miles without stopping - all against the tide.

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