Edgar Allan Poe is associated with many places throughout the east coast of the United States, but rarely do people realize Poe’s significance to Providence, Rhode Island. Albeit brief, his time in Providence resulted in some of the most incredible moments of his life. Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island’s mission is to elaborate on those events and to highlight our claim on Poe’s legacy. In the process, we will shed some well-deserved light the Providence-born poetess and one-time fiancée of Poe’s, Sarah Helen Whitman.