APRIL 2

Events:

April 2nd Farmington ,NH Goodwin library Poet And Writer Project 6:00 PM  http://farmingtonnhpoetandwriterproject.blogspot.com/

This Just Inn:

April 9^th Rochester 4:30-6. Bookbumz creative writing club / coffee shop and arts venue. Authors' night Monday /3 local authors interviewed about their books.Every other Monday Bookbumz on Wallace St www.bookbumz.com

Born:

4/2

Charlemagne, 742 -01/28/814) 1st Holy Roman emperor

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03610c.htm

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova 1725 – 04/06/1798) Italian writer

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2981/2981-h/2981-h.htm

Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 08/04/1875) Danish writer / fairy tale writer

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

http://hca.gilead.org.il/

http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/
Heinrich Hoffman 1809- September 20, 1894.) - German physician and writer

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

Erastus Brigham Bigelow, (1814 - December 6, 1879) American inventor of weaving machines.

http://bigelowsociety.com/rod7/erastus7.htm

Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning 1814-July 10,1875  Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/benningcobbrussel/Henry.Lewis.Benning.html
Thomas Howard Ruger 1833 –June 30,1907  Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4906

Emile Zola (1840 – 09/28/1902) French writer and insurgent

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=528

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

Nicholas Murray Butler, 1862 – December 7, 1947American philosopher, diplomat, and educator; president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. (Nobel 1931))

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/butler-bio.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1039570/

Mordecai Ham 1877- 1959  American evangelist;  It was under Ham's preaching in the late 1930s that Billy Graham was led into a living faith.

http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=487&forum=40&1

Sir John Collings Squire (1884 – 20 December 1958) British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.

THE HAPPY NIGHT

I have loved to-night; from love's last bordering steep
I have fallen at last with joy and forgotten the shore;
I have known my love to-night as never before,
I have flung myself in the deep, and drawn from the deep,
And kissed her lightly, and left my beloved to sleep.
And now I sit in the night and my heart is still:
Strong and secure; there is nothing that's left to will,
There is nothing to win but only a thing to keep.

And I look to-night, completed and not afraid,
Into the windy dark where shines no light;
And care not at all though the darkness never should fade,
Nor fear that death should suddenly come to-night.
Knowing my last would be surely my bravest breath,
I am happy to-night: I have laughed to-night at death.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37861/37861-h/37861-h.htm

Kurt Herbert Adler  (1905 – 02/09/1988)  Austrian-American  opera director

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kurt-adler-q9407
Irene Mayer Selznick 1907 -1990  producer (Street Car Named Desire)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6512

Buddy Ebsen  (1908 – 07/06/2003)  US dancer, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001171/

Sir Alec Guinness  (1919 – 08/05/2000)  English actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/
George MacDonald Fraser (1925-01/01/2008), British historical novelist/poet (Flashman at the Charge)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/

Michael Rizzello, 1926 - sculpter/coin designer

http://jerseycoins.com/com_2/misc/mr.htm

Serge Gainsbourg   (1928 – 03/02/1991)  French singer

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/gainsbourg200711

Konrád György (George) (1933- ) Hungarian novelist and essayist

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

Georgie Anne Geyer (1935 – ) US columnist

http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/georgie-anne-geyer/
Jack Brabham, 1936 -   Australian race car driver (Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966. He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.

http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/brab_bio.htm

http://www.jackbrabham.com/biography1.html

http://www.4mula1.ro/history/driver/Jack_Brabham

Marvin Gaye (1939 – 04/01/1984) US singer, songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marvin-gaye-p4344

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/marvin-gaye-classic-soul-singer

Leon Russell, 1941 - Lawton KS, pianist/singer (Carny, "Delta Lady," )

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/leon-russell-p5327

Anne Waldman, 1945 - American poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-waldman

http://www.litkicks.com/AnneWaldman

http://www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
Linda Hunt 1945 -  Morristown NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/
Kurt Winter 1946-Dec 22,1997  rocker/ songwriter  (The Guess Who)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4229

Emmylou Harris (1947 – ) US singer, songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/emmylou-harris-p1642

Camille Paglia  (1947 – )   US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656468/

http://www.salon.com/writer/camille_paglia/
Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, 1948 - US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?60

Leon Wilkerson  1952 -Jul. 27, 2001 rocker -bass guitarist for the Southern rock band "Lynyrd Skynyrd".

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynyrd-skynyrd-p4812

Dave Robinson 1953- Rock musician(The Cars)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-cars-p3850

Mark Shulman, 1962 - American children's author

http://www.oomf.com/

Passed:

4/2

 William D. Longstaff,  1822 -1894 English philanthropist ;A friend of Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey, Longstaff left several writings, but is best remembered today for authoring the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/o/longstaff_wd.htm

Paul von Heyse, (1830-1914 ) German writer, Nobel laureate

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

http://classiclit.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=classiclit&cdn=education&tm=6&gps=233_10_1440_681&f=20&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1910a.html

Richard Cobden  (06/03/1804 –1865)   English politician- founder Anti-Corn-Law League

http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=89&Itemid=28
Ambrose Powell Hill   1825-1865 Confederate General

http://www.civilwarhome.com/aphillbio.htm

Katharine Tynan, January 23, 1861-, 1931 Brit writer  ,authored over one hundred novels, a five-volume autobiography, and several books of poems.

http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=tynaka

By Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931)

http://www.bartleby.com/293/429.html

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hinkson-katharine

Alice Berend,June 30,1875- 1938 German writer

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/alice-berend

http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autor/998

Jean Epstein, March 25, 1897 -1953 French director (Vive la Vie)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258477/

Cecil Scott Forester,  08271899- 1966 English author (Horatio Hornblower),

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6701

Georges Pompidou   (07/05/1911 – 1974)  French President

http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000082593/

Buddy Rich 09/30/1917-1987 US  drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/buddy-rich-p7417/biography

Tomoyuki Tanaka, April26,1910-1997  Japanese  Creator/producer (Godzilla)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849083/

Pope John Paul II   (05/18/1920 –2005)   religious leader
http://www.nndb.com/people/366/000022300/

Sites:

http://www.brooks.lib.vt.us/

www.williamfogglibrary.org.

http://je1su.tripod.com/Fotos_Obras.html

http://www.patobriensongsandstories.com/

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM&feature=player_embedded

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/now-showing-mary-delany-a-force-of-nature/

http://www.chrismcdougall.com/

History:

4/2

1866 President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia

http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonpresidentandrewjohnsonsproclamationsfortheendofthecivilwar.html

1968, the science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey," produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/r188743

Bonus Poem:

Spring

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death
But what does that signify?
Not only under the ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers

                                                                        Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950

http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2010/04/07/millay-spring/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=70