October  11

Events:

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/

Oct 11, Manchester: Slam Free or Die – featuring Northwest poets Meg Waldron and Robyn Bateman  & open mike slam poetry,Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos,603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com,facebook.com/slamfreeordie )

Oct 11 Bristol  Poetry Open Mic At The Back Room for poets that would like to share their original work in a warm and welcoming atmosphere! Sign-up will begin at 6:45pm. After the open mic, our featured poet, Carol Weisberg, will perform  The Mill Fudge Factory  2 Central Street, ~ (603)744-0405 ~. http://www.themillfudgefactory.com/    last show of the season! (Ivy Page, (603) 481-3943).

Born:

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Sir Thomas Wyatt  1503-October 11, 1542 English Tudor diplomat poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-wyatt

Samuel Clarke (1675- May 16,1729  ) Philosopher / Newtonian theologian

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/ETEXTS/PHIL_of_RELIGION_TEXT/CHAPTER_4_ARGUMENTS_REASON/Cosmological.htm

Parson Mason Weems  (1759 – May 23, 1825) American book agent and author. The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington. 1800,

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011608333

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=weems&amode=words&title=&tmode=words

Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-April 22, 1946)  US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46 Stone was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire

http://www.oyez.org/justices/harlan_fiske_stone

Lewis Fry Richardson  (1881-30 Sept 1953   ), Brit physicist and psychologist

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richardson.html

Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884 – 11/07/1962)  US first lady (33) (wife of F.D.R.)

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/roos-ele.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Eleanor-Roosevelt/e/B001IU2SGK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_14?qid=1349945524&sr=8-14

François (Charles) Mauriac  (1885-  09/01/1970). French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mauriac.htm
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Mauriac_Francois.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html

Joseph W. Alsop, Jr.  (1910 – 08/28/1989)  US writer Matter of Fact

http://creativequotations.com/one/1458.htm

Art Blakey   (1919-Oct 16,   1990) Principal bebop instigator and drummer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/art-blakey-mn0000928942

Saul Friedländer 1932 Historian ,biographer- Holocaust

http://www.amazon.co.uk/franz-kafka-Saul-Friedl%C3%A4nder-Books/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Franz%20Kafka&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3AFranz%20Kafka%2Cp_lbr_books_authors_browse-bin%3ASaul%20Friedl%C3%A4nder#/ref=sr_hi_2?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_lbr_books_authors_browse-bin%3ASaul+Friedl%C3%A4nder&ie=UTF8&qid=1349948454

James M. McPherson (1936-    ) US Civil War historian

http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/james-m-mcpherson/

http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/mcpherson/

Daryl Hall (1946) i American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates

                                                      From Sara Smile

Baby hair with a woman's eyes
I can feel you watching in the night
All alone with me and we're waiting for the sunlight
When I feel cold you warm me
When I feel I can't go on you come and hold me
It's you... And me forever

Sara Smile
Won't you smile a while for me

If you feel like leaving you know you can go
But why don't you stay until tomorrow?
And if you want to be free, all you have to do is say so
When you feel cold, I'll warm you
And when you feel you can't go on, I'll come and hold you
It's you... And me forever

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/badteacher/sarasmile.htm

 Theodore Dalrymple, Anthony (A.M.) Daniels (1949-  English writer ;retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.

http://blog.skepticaldoctor.com/

Bruce Bartlett 1951-  Conservative  pundit

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Authors/B/Bruce-Bartlett.aspx

Danny Sugerman  (1954 – 01/05/2005)  US writer Manager/Biographer for The Doors

http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Sugerman/e/B000APALY0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4?qid=1349945610&sr=1-4

Jerome Rabinowitz Robbins, 1918) American choreographer

http://jeromerobbins.org/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730385/

Elmore Leonard  (1925). US novelist and screenwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001465/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/elmore-leonard/

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Joan Cusack   (1962 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000349/

Luke Perry  (1966 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000580/

Michelle Wie 1989- Pro Golfer

http://www.michellewie.com/

Passed:

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Huldrych Zwingli   ( Jan 1,1484-1531 ) Swiss-Protestant Reformation

http://www.tlogical.net/biozwingli.htm

Meriwether Lewis (Aug 18,1774-1809)     Lewis and Clark expedition

http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_html/lewis.html

Chico Marx  (03/22/1887 –1961)  US comic, actor (Marx Brothers)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555597/

Edith Piaf  (12/19/1915 –1963)  Internationally-renowned French chanteuse
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681191/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/edith-piaf-mn0000150629

Jean Cocteau  (07/05/1889 –1963)  French writer, filmmaker La Belle et la Bête

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

from  Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica)

Greetings
I discard eloquence
the empty sail
and the swollen sail
which cause the ship
to lose her course

My ink nicks
and there

and there

and there

and
there

sleeps
deep poetry

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/preamble-a-rough-draft-for-an-ars-poetica/

Dorothea Lange  (05/26/1895 –1965)  US photographer

http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=d_lange

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

MacKinlay Kantor  (Feb 4,1904-1977) US  Author  Andersonville  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1956

http://www.amazon.com/MacKinlay-Kantor/e/B000APRU30

Wayland Flowers ( Nov 26,   1939- 1988) puppeteer  Madame's puppeteer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283222/

Redd Foxx  (12/09/1922 –1991)  US comic, actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289359/

William Vickrey ( June 21,   ,1914- 1996) Economist Asymmetric information in economics  1996, shared with Scottish economist James A. Mirrlees the Nobel Prize in economics.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1996/vickrey-bio.html

Ivan Alexander Getting (January 18, 1912—, 2003) American physicist and electrical engineer, credited (along with Roger L. Easton and Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).) president of Aerospace Corp;

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/626/1

Sites:

http://www.bookwire.com/Memory-Won't-Save-Me-9780982810040.html

http://womenrulewriter.blogspot.com/2011/08/arlen-house-new-blogs.html

http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Estrada

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6136/pg6136.html

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.6/sarah_crossland_poetry_contest_poem.php

http://www.amazon.com/Planetfall-New-Solar-System-Visions/dp/1419704222#reader_1419704222

History:

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1975, the television program Saturday Night Live debuted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/snl-timeline-37-years-cast-member-infographic_n_1528530.html

1968 the United States launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo space mission, and the first space flight to broadcast live on television from orbit.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo7.html

Bonus Poem:

Haiku –

Call, by Anon.,

Answer, by JMA

Your attention please. / An important announcement. / Do not ignore me.

So anonymous, / the voice on the loud speaker. / Does she speak to me?

http://www.pplp.org/unhhaikuproject.htm

RIP “Mongo”

ALEX KARRAS: 1935-2012

Alex Karras was one of the NFL's most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen.

And yet, to many people he will always be the lovable dad from the 1980s sitcom 'Webster' or the big cowboy who famously punched out a horse in 'Blazing Saddles.'

-wiki

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440090/

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KarrAl00.htm