June 1

Events:

June 1st North Berwick Maine  630 to 9 pm  Noble High School - 388 Somersworth Road North Berwick Maine (not far from Somersworth NH)   Reading and Book signing of Blood Red Dawn by teacher/poet Jon Shutt  Copies will be available for purchase, $12.00 All author royalties to be donated to the USO (United Services Organization)  Doors open at 630 for book purchases and signings    Timeline:. 7:00 6 Noble High finalists for the BRD poetry contest will read their poems to be judged by 3 local veterans  . 7:30 Jon Shutt will read selected poems from Blood Red Dawn  . 8:15 The winners of the poetry contest will be announced!

Afterwards Jon will be available to sell and sign more books.   jon.shutt.yahoo.com 

 June 1, 2012, Hancock, NH  An evening of inspiration, invention and surprise 7:30 p.m
Poets Becky Sakellariou & Rodger Martin, Composer/musician Frank Wallace and Singer Amy Knight
7:30 p.m., Hancock Town Library, Hancock, NH rodgerwriter.myfairpoint.net>

Born:

Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-Nov. 20, 1847     Scottish clergyman who wrote the hymns 'Abide with Me' and 'Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken.'

From “Abide With Me’

1Abide with me! Fast falls the Eventide;

2The darkness thickens. Lord, with me abide

3When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,

4Help of the helpless, O abide with me!

5Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;

6Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away:

7Change and decay in all around I see.

8O Thou who changest not, abide with me!

9Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word;

10But as Thou dwellst with thy disciples, Lord,

11Familiar, condescending, patient, free, --

12Come, not to sojourn, but abide with me.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/lyte-henry-francis

Brigham Young  (1801 – 08/29/1877)  US religious leader
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/presidents/controllers/potcController.jsp?leader=2&topic=facts

Philip Kearney 1814 - 1 Sept 1862, Civil War general (Union)

http://www.njhm.com/kearny.htm
 John Hunt Morgan 1825 – September 4, 1864) - Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4433

William Wilfred  Campbell   1858 – 1918   Canadian   Victorian  poet

The End of the Furrow

1When we come to the end of the furrow,

2 When our last day's work is done,

3We will drink of the long red shaft of light

4 That slants from the westering sun.

5We will turn from the field of our labour,

6 From the warm earth glad and brown,

7And wend our feet up that village street,

8 And with our folk lie down.

9Yea, after the long toil, surcease,

10 Rest to the hearts that roam,

11When we join in the mystic silence

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/campbell-william-wilfred

John Masefield  (1878 – 05/12/1967)  English writer 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/masefield-john

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5274
John Drinkwater ( 1882 - 25 March 1937) English poet and dramatist.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11172/11172-h/11172-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9850/9850-h/9850-h.htm

John Randolph  (1915 – 02/24/2004)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0709907/

Povel Karl Henrik Ramel  1922- June 5, 2007,  Swedish composer, singer, actor and writer.

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

Marilyn Monroe  Norma Jean Baker  (1926 – 08/05/1962)  US actor, icon, sex symbol (Some Like It Hot)

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/82952.Marilyn_Monroe

Andy Griffith  (06/01/1926 – )  US actor, singer )Andy Griffith Show, Matlock)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341431/

James Hadley Billington (1929) American academic. thirteenth Librarian of the United States Congress.

http://www.loc.gov/about/librarianoffice/

Mohamed Naguib Mohamed Surur Hagrass   1932- October 24, 1978  Egyptian playwright, poet, actor and critic,

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

Pat Boone  (1934 – )  US singer , (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004769/

Colleen McCullough  (1937 – )  Australian writer
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Colleen-McCullough/1867624

Morgan Freeman  (1937 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/

Ron Wood  (1947 – )  English guitarist (Birds, Faces, Rolling Stones)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939976/
Tom Sneva , 1948-   ,US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983) 

http://thegreatest33.com/default.aspx#selecteddrivers?s=tom_sneva

Alanis Morissette  (1974 – )  Canadian singer

http://www.alanis.com/

Passed:

Sir John Suckling  (02/10/1609 – 06/01/1642)  English writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5274

Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) Scottish writer and controversialist. He was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Charles  I  

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/ross_alexander.htm

Solomon George Washington Dill   -1864  US  Reconstruction, ally of blacks

http://www.screconstruction.org/Reconstruction/Sites_of_violence/Entries/1868/6/4_Assassination_of_Solomon_Washington_Dill.html

James Buchanan  (04/23/1791 –1868)  US President (15)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesbuchanan

Joseph Howe   December 13, 1804-  1873   Canadian  Victorian Poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/howe-joseph

John Dewey  (10/20/1859 –1952)  US educator, philosopher
http://dewey.pragmatism.org/

Sir Hugh Walpole  (03/13/1884 –1941)  English writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?30570

http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/sir-hugh-walpole
Sax Rohmer   Ward, Arthur Henry Sarsfield  Eng Writer 15 February 1883-1959

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1656

Helen Keller  (06/27/1880 –1968)  US writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hkeller.htm

Reinhold Niebuhr  (06/21/1892 –1971)   US theologian and social commentaror

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/reinhold_niebuhr.html

Hank Ketcham  (03/14/1920 –2001)  US cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
http://www.dennisthemenace.com/tribute.html

William Manchester  (04/01/1922 –2004)  US historian

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8180-2004Jun1.html

Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky , May 12, 1933 –2010 Soviet and Russian poet and writer

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andrei-voznesensky-poet-who-fought-against-artistic-censorship-in-the-soviet-union-2018291.html

http://vagalecs.narod.ru/Vozncoll.htm#MY FRIEND’S  LIGHT

Sites:

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns24161.html

http://www.artsonelm.org/

http://www.oxfordplains.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1567/1567-h/1567-h.htm

http://www.worldofpoets.com/index.php

http://www.yankeecandle.com/

http://www.loc.gov/about/generalinfo.html

History:

1898 George Bernard Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townsend

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1990 The Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting

http://www.livestream.com/thecowboychannel

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years

http://www.ronalfy.com/what-i-learned-from-the-mt-pinatubo-eruption/

Bonus Poem:

                 Hourglass

The ocean is a blue cliché,
The pink sunset a rough-edged neon light through the smog.
Sand and seaweed scuff my toes in the tender spots,
Pillow the tough heels of my wave-buried feet and
Slowly cover my ankles.
There is sand everywhere,
On my face and hands,
Carried by the waves onto my clothes,
Even in the air as it is flung back,
Back into the sea that will toss and churn it
And round the sharper grains
So that some child's small pink feet
Will one day feel them,
Soft under the soft-skinned toes
Of one not even thought of yet
On our sand grain of a world.

Copyright © 1994 by Katherine Foreman.

http://www.hyperborea.org/alenxa/free.html#ponder