March  6

Events:

March 6  Moultonboro-7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Features Harmony Markey http://www.myspace.com/harmonymarkey  followed by open   mic (476-8895) http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/events.asp

THIS Just In:

March 12   Conway   . 6:30pm Open Mic Night will feature Puckerbrush, a local acoustic band. Wanna share your talents? Open floor from 6:30-7:20pm, then Puckerbrush plays from 7:30-8:30pm. Refreshments served. Listeners very welcome, too! (447-5552) (CPL at 447-5552

Born:

March 6

Michelangelo Buonarotti  (1475 – 02/18/1564)  Italian painter, sculptor

http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html

Francesco Guicciardini, 1482- May 22 ,1540 Florentine statesman, diplomat, and historian

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07064a.htm

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) French dramatist, satirist, and soldier

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bergerac.htm

Elizabeth Barrett Browning  (1806 – 06/29/1861)  English Victorian writer & poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/36.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=release_date&query=781

The Poet’s Vow

PART THE THIRD.

SHOWING HOW THE VOW WAS KEPT.

I.

He dwelt alone, and sun and moon

Were witness that he made

Rejection of his humanness

Until they seemed to fade;

His face did so, for he did grow

Of his own soul afraid.

II.

The self-poised God may dwell alone

With inward glorying,

But God's chief angel waiteth for

A brother's voice, to sing;

And a lonely creature of sinful nature

It is an awful thing.

III.

An awful thing that feared itself;

While many years did roll,

A lonely man, a feeble man,

A part beneath the whole,

He bore by day, he bore by night

That pressure of God's infinite

Upon his finite soul.

IV.

The poet at his lattice sate,

And downward lookèd he.

Three Christians wended by to prayers,

With mute ones in their ee;

Each turned above a face of love

And called him to the far chapèlle

With voice more tuneful than its bell:

But still they wended three.

V.

There journeyed by a bridal pomp,

A bridegroom and his dame;

He speaketh low for happiness,

She blusheth red for shame:

But never a tone of benison

From out the lattice came.

VI.

A little child with inward song,

No louder noise to dare,

Stood near the wall to see at play

The lizards green and rare—

Unblessed the while for his childish smile

Which cometh unaware.

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37452/37452-h/37452-h.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebrownin.htm

General Philip Sheridan  (1831 – 08/05/1888)  US civil war general

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sheridan/general-phil-sheridan.htm

Ring[gold Wilmer] Lardner, Sr. (1885-09251933), U S satirical writer of the Jazz Age

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Bembrey/ring.html

 [Walter] Furry Lewis (1893- 0914,1981  ) father of the blues

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/furry-lewis-p421

Lou Costello 1906-0303,1959 Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182579/

Stanislaw Lec (1906 – 05/07/1966) Polish writer

http://books.google.com/books/about/Unkempt_thoughts.html?id=yCwxAAAAIAAJ

Ross Hunter 1921-  Cleveland OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)

Gabriel García Márquez (1928-   ), Colombian journalist, novelist and short story writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marquez.htm

Wang Anyi (1954 -  ) {Wang An-yi } Chinese writer –novels, essays, journalism, travel writings, literary criticism, and memoirs

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wang.htm

Will Eisner (1917 – 01/03/2005) US sequential artist

http://www.willeisner.com/biography/index.html

Sarah Caldwell  (1924 – 03/23/2006)  US opera conductor

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2742
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (1927 – October 4, 2004), American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9554259

William Francis Nolan (1928-  ) American author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?838

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634368/

http://www.williamfnolan.com/

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  (1928 – )  Colombian writer1982 Nobelist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-bio.html

http://robertmijas.com/blog/poem-the-rag-doll-gabriel-garcia-marquez/

Marion Barry, Jr.  (1936 – )  US mayor (Washington, DC)

http://www.nndb.com/people/892/000023823/

Ivan Boesky  (1937 – )  US insider trader

http://www.biography.com/people/ivan-boesky-17169748

David Jon Gilmour (1946-   ) England, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Wall)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-gilmour-p80078

Rob Reiner  (1947 – )  US actor-director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001661/

Steven Kravitz  (1956 – ) US comic, actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470430/

Shaquille O'Neal  (1972 – )  US basketball player

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/614/shaquille-oneal

Passed:

March 6

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) Eng Elizabethan writer, poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/18.html

G. T. F. Guillaume Thomas Raynal, April 12, 1713 -1796 Age of Enlightenment French writer and man of letters.

Davy Crockett  (08/17/1786 –1836)  US explorer, politician

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/crockett.htm

William Whewell 24 May 1794 –1866) English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/whewell/

"found poem" in William Whewell's

 "An Elementary Treatise On Mechanics":

"Hence no force
However great
Can stretch a cord
However fine
Into a horizontal line
Which is accurately straight."

Artemus Ward  (04/26/1834 –1867) US writer
http://lkwdpl.org/buckeye/buck02.htm

Louisa May Alcott  (11/29/1832 –1888)  US writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lmalcott.htm

Nelson Eddy  (06/29/1901 –1967)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/

Camilla Collett, ( 1813-1895) Norwegian writer and feminist

http://www.dokpro.uio.no/litteratur/collett/

Gottlieb Daimler [ 1834-1900 ] German inventor; designed 1st motorcycle- The Daimler Motor Company

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWdaimler.htm

Julia H. Johnston,  -1919 American Presbyterian Sunday School leader. 500 hymns "Grace Greater Than Our Sin" (a.k.a. "Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord").

http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/He_Ransomed_Me/

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (03/08/1841 –1935) US Supreme Court Justice

http://harvardregiment.org/holmes.html

Gutzon Borglum, March 25, 1867-1941 Danish, American sculptor (Mt Rushmore)

http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/02/four_score_and_18_years_ago_sc.html

Ivor Novello  (01/15/1893 –1951)  Brit/US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637040/

John Russell (April22,1885-1956) US Writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751246/

Pearl S. Buck (06/26/1892 –1973) US writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pearlbuc.htm

Micheál MacLiammóir (10/25/1899 –1978) English writer, actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533943/
Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 –1982) US writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rand.htm

Eric Sloane, February 27, 1905-1985  US artist

http://www.ericsloane.com/

Georgia O'Keeffe (11/15/1887 –1986) US artist

http://www.biography.com/people/georgia-okeeffe-9427684

John Sanford, (1904-2003) American author

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7244594

Sites:

http://wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/index.html

http://www.ohtm.org/events_2000.html

http://www.altoonalibrary.org/books/week%20in%20blue%20mtn/weekinbluemtn0001.htm

http://www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/poetshowcase2/poetlaureate7.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/index.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39042/39042-h/39042-h.htm

Bonus Poem:

Crescendo

Silence is the thought that screams beneath my skin.
It is my loudest prayer,
The only thing I'm good at…

It echoes in my throat and spurs a gentle wave across my tongue…
I've spoken it farther than any sound could ever dream to go.

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?
As it resonates from my deepest core…

I can hear it,
I can feel it…
As it clothes my body from mind to soul.


                              Brenda Arroyo

http://www.poemhunter.com/brenda-arroyo/poems/