October 2

Events:

October 2, Moultonborough: Robert Straw ,musician, is featured, followed by an open mike, at the Moultonborough Public Library, 7:30 p.m. (library 476-8895, or Priscilla Burlingham

Oct 2 Portland  Port VERITAS  Open Mic featuring Christopher Clauss At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant  375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101   All Ages – $2 Cover   7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30       FMI please visit our site www.portveritas.com
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Born:

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Francis Hopkinson 1737- May 9,1791 novelist Poet, Essayist, Orator, Librarian The Ballad of the Kegs

http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Hopkinson__Francis.html

Nat Turner (1800-Nov11,1831) US Slave

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

Mahatma Gandhi      (10/02/1869 – 01/31/1948)  Indian  political, religious leader

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gandhi.htm

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878 – 26 May 1962) British Georgian poet

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

Wallace Stevens  (10/02/1879 – 08/02/1955)  US writer insurance man Harmonium (1923),

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wsteven.htm

Groucho Marx  (10/02/1890 – 08/19/1977)   US comic, actor

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720307/PEOPLE/41116001/1023

Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, (1901 – 23 April 1957) Anglo-African poet and satirist.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030822073827/http://www.uzulu.ac.za/art/eng/campbell.htm

The Zebras

From the dark woods that breathe of fallen showers,
Harnessed with level rays in golden reins,
The zebras draw the dawn across the plains
Wading knee-deep among the scarlet flowers.
The sunlight, zithering their flanks with fire,
Flashes between the shadows as they pass
Barred with electric tremors through the grass
Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre.

Into the flushed air snorting rosy plumes
That smoulder round their feet in drifting fumes,
With dove-like voices call the distant fillies,
While round the herds the stallion wheels his flight,
Engine of beauty volted with delight,
To roll his mare among the trampled lilies.

http://theformalist.org/archives/148

Graham Greene (1904 – 04/03/1991)  English writer  The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair (1951), and Our Man in Havana (1958).

http://www.amazon.com/Graham-Greene/e/B000APVBKI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1349166530&sr=8-1

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Willy Ley  1906 - June 24, 1969) German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?458

Jack Finney  1911-November 14, 1995  American writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278277/

Edmund Crispin Robert Bruce Montgomery 1921-    1978 British writer and composer, master of fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek mystery novels

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/crispin.htm

Jan Morris  (10/02/1926 – )  English writer

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1251/the-art-of-the-essay-no-2-jan-morris

Rex Reed  (10/02/1938 – ) US critic

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715643/

Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940—1993), American author, primarily of children's literature.daughter of aviators/authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/docs/

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Lindbergh/e/B001IYTQKC

Don McLean 1945-  Singer/Songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-mclean-mn0000179205

Annie Leibovitz  (10/02/1949 – )  US photographer

http://andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/annieleibovitz/americanmusic/index.htm

Sting Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (/1951 – ) English bassist, singer (Police)

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7944ed53-2a58-4035-9b93-140a71e41c34

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-police-mn0000413524

Gillian Welch 1967 Singer/Songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gillian-welch-mn0000551465

Passed:

1002

Samuel Adams(  09/27/1722 –1803)  US patriot, brewer

http://www.lucidcafe.com/%E2%80%8Clibrary/95sep/adams.html

José Agostinho de Macedo Sept 11,1761-1831 poet Os Burros

http://archive.org/details/obrasineditasdej01mace

Ernest Renan  (02/28/1823 –/1892) French philosopher, historian

http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/renan.htm

José Maria de Heredia, (Nov. 22, 1842-, 1905, Cuban-born French poet

OBLIVION

On headland's height the temple's ruins lie,

Where Death has intermixed bronze Heroes slain

With marble Goddesses whose glory vain

The lonely grass enshrouds with many a sigh.

Only at times a herdsman, driving by

His kine for drink, piping antique refrain

That floods the heavens to the very main,

Shows his dark form against the boundless sky.-

Sweet mother Earth, all vainly eloquent,

Each springtime to the Gods acanthus green

Gives for the capitals that once have been;

But man, to old-time dreams indifferent,

Hears without tremor, hi the midnight deep,

The ocean moaning as the sirens weep.

                  Copyright, 1897, by  EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR. translator

http://archive.org/details/sonnetsofjosma00hereuoft

 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14805

http://www.poemhunter.com/jose-maria-de-heredia-y-campuzano/biography/

Peter D. Ouspensky (March 6, 1878-1947 ) Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum

http://www.yuga.com/Cgi/Pag.dll?Pag=82&RId=98

Hattie McDaniel  (06/10/1895 –/1952)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567408/

Marcel Duchamp  (07/28/1887 –1968)  French surrealist DADA

http://www.abcgallery.com/D/duchamp/duchamp.html

Hazel Scott  (06/11/1920 –1981)  Trinidadi-US pianist, singer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779220/

Rock Hudson  (11/17/1925 –/1985)  US actor

http://www.cmgww.com/stars/hudson/

Sir Peter B. Medawar  (02/28/1915 –/1987)  Brazil-born British zoologist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1960/medawar-bio.html

Norman O. Brown ( sept 25, 1913-2002) American Historian Life Against Death

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/arts/norman-o-brown-dies-playful-philosopher-was-89.html

August Wilson  (04/27/1945 –/2005)  US playwright The Piano Lesson

http://www.augustwilson.net/

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/839/the-art-of-theater-no-14-august-wilson

Sites:

http://www.goodreads.com/

http://www.milarch.org/site/c.dwJXKgOUJiIaG/b.6287769/k.E360/Archbishop_Timothy_P_Broglio__the_fourth_Archbishop.htm

http://www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/calendar.php

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9388/pg9388.html

http://johnirons.blogspot.com/

http://www.meetup.com/bostonpoetry/

History:

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1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct02.html

1915 Reedy's Mirror publishes the first part of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/masters-edgar-lee

1780, British intelligence officer Major John André was hanged as a spy in Tappan, New York. Captured

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct02.html

Bonus Poem:

         THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK

THOU ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth did'st by my side remain,
Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true
Who thee abroad, expos'd to publick view,
Made thee in raggs, halting to th' press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judg).
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,
I cast thee by as one unfit for light,
Thy Visage was so irksome in my sight;
Yet being mine own, at length affection would
Thy blemishes amend, of so I could:
I wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
I stretcht thy joynts to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run'st more hobling then is meet;
In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
But nought save home-spun Cloth, i'th' house I find.
In this array, 'mongst Vulgars mayst thou roam,
In Criticks hands, beware thou dost not come;
And take thy way where yet thou art not known,
If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none:
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.


                                                           Anne Bradstreet (1612-167