March 11

Events:

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This just In:

March 15th Portsmouth- 7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Readers:

Michael Macklin, Marita O’neill, Melissa   Crowe and Gordon Lang Feature, Accompanied by The Larry Simon   Ensemble, followed by open mike (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

April 26-29, 2012 Portsmouth  Jazzmouth, The Seacoast Poetry & Jazz Festival   Highlights of this years festival include special guests: David Amram • Eric Mingus XJ Kennedy • Lawrence Kraman
ALSO  at The Music Hall, screening of "The Manchurian Candidate” with composer David Amram present and “David Amram, the First 80 Years” at The Loft.   http://jazzmouth.org/

Born:

March 11

Torquato Tasso (1544-April 25,1595) Italian poet of the late Renaissance
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ttasso.htm http://www.elfinspell.com/LucchiTasso.html Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay ( 1726-April 17,17830  France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms)/, a saloniste and woman of fashion http://www.facebook.com/pages/Louise-dEpinay/115051781839651 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/390983?uid=3739800&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=47698743975287 Robert Treat Paine 1731-May11,1814 Mass judge, signer of Declaration of Independence http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=787

Marsena Rudolph Patrick 1811-7/27/1888 Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=99

John Wilkins Whitfield 1818 - Oct. 27, 1879 Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11108

H.Hannah Frances Davidson, 1860- 1935 US pioneer missionary;first woman from the Brethren in Christ Church to earn an M.A. degree-1892, and in became one of her denomination's first missionaries to travel to the African continent-1897.

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/D278.html

Malcolm Campbell 1885 – 31 December 1948) English racing motorist and motoring journalist. world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s & 30s

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7471108

http://www.bluebirdspeedrecords.com/

Vannevar Bush  (1890 – 06/28/1974)  US engineer

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html

Lady Dorothy Rachel Melissa Walpole Mills (1896 - 4 December 1959 author of both novels and accounts of her many travels and explorations.

http://jameswallaceharris.com/LadyMills/

Dorothy Gish  (1898 – 06/04/1968)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321088/

Lawrence Welk   (1903 – 05/17/1992)  US bandleader, TV host

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919785/

Alba de Céspedes(1911-November 14,97) Italian pioneering feminist movement writer

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

Homer Edward Newell, Jr. (1915- July 18,1983) mathematics professor ,author and United States government science administrator-NASA

http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=92

http://www.amazon.com/Vector-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mathematics/dp/0486453383

Ezra Jack Keats Jacob Ezra Katz (1916 – May 6, 1983) Caldecott-winning author of The Snowy Day, children's literature author and illustrators

http://childrensbooks.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=childrensbooks&cdn=parenting&tm=321&gps=309_974_1276_835&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/keats/main.html

Sir Harold Wilson  (1916 – 05/24/1995)  British PM (46)

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

D J Dennis Joseph Enright  (1920 – 31 December 2002) British academic, poet, novelist and critic, and general man of letters.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/Noodle-vendor.html

    A Polished Performance

Citizens of the polished capital
Sigh for the towns up country,
And their innocent simplicity.

People in the towns up country
Applaud the unpolished innocence
Of the distant villages.

Dwellers in the distant villages
Speak of a simple unspoilt girl,
Living alone, deep in the bush.

Deep in the bush we found her,
Large and innocent of eye,
Among gentle gibbons and mountain ferns.

Perfect for the part, perfect,
Except for the dropsy
Which comes from polished rice.

In the capital our film is much admired,
Its gentle gibbons and mountain ferns,
Unspoilt, unpolished, large and innocent of eye.

http://www.flakmag.com/opinion/enright.html

F. M. Francis Marion Busby (1921- 17 February 2005) US fantasy writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/f-m-busby/

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?339

Vinnette Carroll 1922- Nov. 5, 2002 African-American actress, playwright, and director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141030/

Christopher Anvil Harry C. Crosby. (1925- Nov.30, 2009) American author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?715

http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=canvil

Ralph Abernathy  (1926 – 04/17/1990)  US clergyman, activist

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

Rupert Murdoch, (1931- ) publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network

http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000023351/

Sam Donaldson 1934- White House correspondent and news anchore

http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000023722/

Antonin Scalia (1936 – ) US Supreme Court

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

Mark Stein 1945 vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/vanilla-fudge-p5744

Bobby McFerrin 1950- . African-American vocalist, musician and composer.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bobby-mcferrin-p7090

Douglas Noel Adams (1952 – 05/11/2001) English writer

http://www.douglasadams.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010930/

Lady Chablis, Benjamin Edward Knox (1957- ) American drag queen entertainer.

http://www.planetchablis.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149288/ Christopher Rice (1978-) US writer http://www.christopherricebooks.com/

Passed:

March 11

Giles Fletcher the elder (c.1548-1611)Eng author buried

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Giles-Fletcher-the-Elder/108985055787061

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_English_works_of_Giles_Fletcher_the.html?id=0XsIAQAAIAAJ

http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Giles%20Fletcher,%20The%20Elder

Hannah Cowley (03/14/1743 –1809) ) was an English dramatist and poet. http://www.juggernaut-theatre.org/first100years/cowleybio.html http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?&action=GET&recordid=33205&page=AuthorRecord Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo (April 11, 1772 - 1857), Spanish poet and man of letters. (A la paz) http://www.poemhunter.com/manuel-jose-quintana/ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924064123486/cu31924064123486_djvu.txt [Bio Pg  144 Sec Pt 6 Pgs 152-166]
V. F. Odoevski    Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( (13 August ,1803 – 1869) Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue http://www.nlr.ru/ar/staff/odoev.htm http://az.lib.ru/o/odoewskij_w_f/ Henry Drummond (12/17/1851 –1897) Scottish evangelist, writer http://henrydrummond.wwwhubs.com/ Thomas Alexander Browne, Rolf Boldrewood.( Aug 6,1826-1915)    Australian writer http://www.brightoncemetery.com/HistoricInterments/150Names/brownet.htm http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/boldrewood.html Mary Ann Thomson,( Dec 5,1834 - 1923)  89, Brit/American hymnwriter-lyrics to "O Zion, Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling," http://www.hymnary.org/person/Thomson_MA http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/t/h/thomson_maf.htm Hendrik W van Loon, Jan.14,1882- 1944 Neth /US radio commentator/writer http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/hendrikwillemvanloon.html http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=392 Rear Admiral Richard E. velyn Byrd (10/25/1888 –1957) US explorer http://www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Kenneth Robeson Dent, Lester (1904-1959) US novelist http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?34479 http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/lester-dent/ Erle Stanley Gardner (07/17/1889 –1970) US writer http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gardner.htm http://www.erlestanleygardner.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306916/#MiscellaneousCrew Philo T. Farnsworth  (08/19/1906 –1971)  US inventor (first television broadcast) http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm John Wyndham (1903-,69) Eng writer http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/john-wyndham/ http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wyndham.htm Whitney M. Young, Jr. (07/31/1921 –1971) US writer http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1136 Fredric [William] Brown, 1906-1972) sci-fi / mystery author http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fbrown.htm Edmund Cooper, (April 30,1926-1982 British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came) http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?802 Horace Gregory, (1898-1982) American poet literary critic, translator, biographer, and editor, translator, biographer, and editorliterary critic, translator, biographer, and editor, literary critic, translator, biographer, and editor, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/horace-gregory Soen Nakagawa, March 19, 1907- 1984  Zen teacher/poet http://sweepingzen.com/2009/12/23/soen-nakagawa-bio/ ZEN HAIKU Touching one another each becomes a pebble of the world On his travels, Soen Nakagawa Roshi liked to pick up pebbles from the different coun-tries he visited and place them in a bag. Swinging the bag around, he would listen tothe sound they made.  http://terebess.hu/english/haiku/nakagawa.html Kostas Roukounas, (1903-1984) Greek rembetiko (Greek folk music ) singer and song writer http://www.spectacularopticals.com/BER.html#Anchor-Roukounas-7431

Richard Brooks,  (May 18, 1912 in - 1992)US  director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112218/

Evangeline Walton (1907-1996) US fantasy novelist The Mabinogion Tetralogy (2002)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/evangeline-walton/

Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 –2003) Irish writer; published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster.

http://sevenmansions.org/

Betty Hutton  (02/26/1921 –2007)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002149/

Sites:

http://www.artsedgewolfeboro.org/

http://straffordcommunitycalendar.com/

http://www.theartstory.org/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYjRM78KAU&feature=autoplay&list=UU7rQ48DScfNgiYP8h8dryqg&lf=plcp&playnext=1

http://masspoetry.org/?utm_campaign=Crazy%20Busy%20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=http%3A//masspoetry.org/

http://www.croptrust.org/main/arcticseedvault.php?itemid=842

http://www.givetheworld.com/aboutEchoStar11.asp

History:

March 11

1959 Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opened on this day in becoming a popular hit and a historic moment in American theater — 530 performances, 6 Tony Awards, the first play by a black woman to run on Broadway.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3732.Lorraine_Hansberry

http://books.google.com/books/about/A_raisin_in_the_sun.html?id=y5UlxfmNjvAC

http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=13596

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055353/

BONUS:
HOLDING

                    Italian tenors make her cry

                    well before the crescendo.

                    Not familiar with their tongue,

                    she identifies

                    with the vast intake of breath,

                    the shoring up of lungs

                    with supplies

                    for the long haul.

                    She knows what to make

                    of the way their bodies shake,

                    banking all their strength

                    and perfect pitch

                    on one note and holding it

                    long past the breaking point.

                                               by Susan Berlin

http://home.earthlink.net/~dougander/susan.html