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Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:59 AM
Subject: 10/10 StraffordNotes
To: Steven Manning <tunamelttunafeet.yahoo.com>

October   10

Events:

October 10, Exeter: Neil English and Joann Ducanson Are Featured, followed by open mike at the Water Street Bookstore, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com ).

October10-14,Concord,NH   NH Book Festival: Murder in New Hampshire This programming is shaping up to be absolutely don't-miss amazing! The Festival will run for four days. There will be book discussions, Literary Flash: Three Minutes of Fame at the Barley House, readings, poetry, author events and more. Stay tuned for details coming soon.   http://www.writersday.org/

ThisJustIn:

Oct 18 Portsmouth Beat Night -An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word accompanied by Live Music. at: The Press Room  poet Mark DeCarteret is guest poetry curator this month. 7:00 - 8:00 PM The Readers: Mark DeCarteret, Ewa Chrusciel, S. Stephanie, and Walter Butts        Accompanied by  The Larry Simon Ensemble=  Larry Simon-Guitar, Scip Gallant-Keys, Mike Barron & Frank Laurino-percussion, Chris Stambaugh-Bass and guests  The Press Room 77 Daniel St Portsmouth NH   Phone (603) 431-5186
, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

And this ,Also:

 

Oct 20 Dunbarton NH Spireside Coffee House featuring Singer/Songwriter  Jack Kid at 7:30 PM.  Doors open at 7:00 PM for Open Mic ; at the Vestry Building adjacent to the Dunbarton Congregational Church . Our buildings and restroom are handicapped accessible.
 Coffee, tea, cold drinks and light refreshments are included  Suggested Donation $5.00 For more information contact Lizz.dccucc.org  Website www.dccucc.org

 

Born:

1010

Giuseppe Verdi  (1813 – 01/27/1901) Italian composer

http://opera.stanford.edu/Verdi/

 

Arthur O. Lovejoy 1873- Dec 30,   1962 US Historian The Great Chain of Being

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v067/67.1diggins.html

 

Ivo Andric  (1892-   1975 ) Writer of Serbo-Croatian novels and short stories ; Nobel Prize for Literature 1961.

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

Lin Yutang  (1895 – 03/26/1976)  Chinese writer

http://www.amoymagic.com/linyutang.htm

Helen Hayes  (1900 – 03/17/1993)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371040/

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=22218

 

Claude Simon (1913-    2005 ) French writer, Nobel Prize for Literature i-1985

http://www.amazon.com/Claude-Simon/e/B001HCVZIQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1349859019&sr=1-2

 

David Gascoyne (1916 – 25 Nov2001) English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.

 

The Cage

In the waking night
The forests have stopped growing
The shells are listening
The shadows in the pools turn grey
The pearls dissolve in the shadow
And I return to you

Your face is marked upon the clockface
My hands are beneath your hair
And if the time you mark sets free the birds
And if they fly away towards the forest
The hour will no longer be ours

Ours in the ornate birdcage
The brimming cup of water
The preface to the book
And all the clocks are ticking
All the dark rooms are moving
All the air's nerves are bare

Once flown
The feathered hour will not return
And I shall have gone away.

 

 

http://www.connectotel.com/gascoyne/

Thelonious Monk (1917- Feb 17,  1982)  Influential jazz pianist and composer

http://www.monkinstitute.org/aboutus/theloniousmonk.php

 

Ed Wood  (1924 – 12/10/1978)  US director, writer Plan 9 From Outer Space

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000248/

 

James Charles Edmund DuMaresq Clavell, (1924 – 6 Sept 1994), British-American novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165412/

Harold Pinter  (/1930 – 12/24/2008)  English writer

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=6084

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html

 

Ken Saro-Wiwa  (1941- November 10, 1995.) Nigerian television producer, writer of satirical novels, children's tales, and plays.

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

 

Peter Coyote 1942-  US Actor/author

http://www.petercoyote.com/

 

Nora Roberts ( 1950-    ) novelist Author of over 120 romance novels

http://www.noraroberts.com/

 

David Lee Roth (/1955 – )  US singer (Van Halen)

http://www.van-halen.com/

 

Tanya Tucker 1958- country Singer Delta Dawn

http://www.tanyatucker.com/

 

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 1974-   NASCAR racer

http://www.dalejr.com/default.aspx

 

Chiaki Kuriyama  (/1984 – )  Japanese actor ,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475752/

 

Passed:

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Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, (March 24, 1739 -Oct. 10, 1791, German poet of the Sturm und Drang period, Sämtliche Gedichte (1785–86; “Collected Poems”)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/christian-friedrich-daniel-schubart-mn0002296181

The Trout

 

In a clear brooklet in happy haste
The impulsive trout dashed past like an arrow.
I stood on the bank and watch in sweet repose
The bath of the lively small fish in the clear brooklet.
The bath of the lively small fish in the clear brooklet.

A fisherman with his rod stood on the bank
And saw cold-bloodedly how the fish was turning around
So long as the water stays clear, I thought,
He won’t catch the trout with his fishing rod.
He won’t catch the trout with his fishing rod.

At last the thief became impatient.
He made the stream muddy maliciously
And I thought, his rod quivered
The fish, the fish was wriggling on it,
And I, with my blood boiling, looked at the duped,
And I, with my blood boiling, looked at the duped.

 

                                                                                                    http://www.poemhunter.com/

Charles Fourier (April 7 ,1772-1837 ) Philosopher Socialist Utopian

http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Charles+Fourier

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/f/o.htm#fourier

 

 

William Seward  (05/16/1801 –1872)  US Secretary of State

http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Seward.html

 

Eddie Cantor  (01/31/1892 –1964)  US entertainer

http://www.eddiecantor.com/index.tpl

 

Ludwig von Mises   ( Sept 28   1881-1983 )Austrian American  Libertarian Economist The Anti-Capitalist Mentality (1956)

 

Sir Ralph Richardson  (12/19/1902 –1983)  English actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724732/

 

Orson Welles  (05/06/1915 –1985)  US actor, director
http://www.wellesnet.com/

 

Yul Brynner  (07/11/1920 –/1985)  Russian actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000989/

 

Christopher Reeve (09/25/1952 –2004) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/

 

Wayne C. Booth ( Feb 22,   1921-2005 ) US Critic The Rhetoric of Fiction

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/books/11booth.html?_r=0

 

 

Sites:

http://www.thecountrybookseller.com/

http://www.neh.gov/

http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/blaustein_israel/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

 

History:

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1845, fifty midshipmen and seven faculty members (three civilians and four officers) inaugurated the first term of the United States Naval School at a ten-acre Army post, Fort Severn, in Annapolis, Maryland.

1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway

http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/gershwin/porgy&bess.php

 

1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"

http://www.radioio.com/2012/10/25-years-ago-bruce-springsteens-tunnel-of-love-album-released/

 

 

Bonus Poem:

Colors of Autumn

 

Black stands solid where once sunshine reigned.

the dawn arises a little later each day

as darkness fades and sun shines bright

the beginning of day the end of night.

Gray streaks shaped like clouds

hovering over the river which flows through the next valley

creating driving hazards as we near

the befogged road that we all fear.

Yellowed leaves, reddened trees, limbs of Orange

Green of pine which stubbornly refuses to change

and the sun comes over the mountain

spewing out light like a lava fountain.

sunglasses hide the eyes from the rays

of sun filled daylight shining into the eyes

sunglasses also refuse to release to the world about

the tears of joy that try to escape with glorious shout.