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Here's a photo of E'ch-Pi-El braving cold weather and stalking ye snow at St. John's churchyard.  I will be holding a picnic there next week, a poetic picnic in Lovecraft's honor, where we will dine on doughnuts (Lovecraft's favourite breakfast--mine too...). cheese and crackers, and coffee ice-cream.  Then our little group will compose an acrostic sonnet in memory of Poe, as Lovecraft and his guests did in days gone by.  I visited this churchyard with S. T. Joshi and friends in October of 2007, and ye memory of it has stay'd with me & inspir'd various items of my writing over ye years.  Next week I get to spend over four days in Providence, attending what will be an epic gathering, NecronomiCon Providence 2013, & I am taking my wee travel diary to record, hour by hour, my time spent in the enchanted city.  For we who are obsess'd Lovecraftians, the very air of Providence contains a magical element.  To breathe that air as we walk ye lanes where Lovecraft walked and pause before the houses wherein he lived & wrote--GAWD!!!  It is going to be a tremendous experience.

at H. P. Lovecraft's high school

at 10 Barnes Street, where HPL wrote so many classics

a moment of inspiration within S. John's churchyard, 2007