June 19

Events:

EVENTS COMING-UP/updates and this’nthat

June 20 Rochester NH Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Jon Shutt. Reading from Dark Red Dawn- his new book inspired by  his  service in Iraq and Afghanistan begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

June 20,Concord, 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured reader Michael Cantor followed by open mic,  27 S. Main St., hosted by Don Kimball (prisdon.comcast.net)

June 21 Portsmouth - 7-9pm - Press Room , 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth - Beat Night (431-5186)

June 21 Effingham - 7pm - Effingham Public Library, 30 Townhouse Road, - Writer's Night with features and open mic (539-1537 or katiemccarthy.adelphia.net )

June 21 Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com ,  facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )

June 21 Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts"        650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

June 20 Rochester NH Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Jon Shutt. Reading from Dark Red Dawn- his new book inspired by  his  service in Iraq and Afghanistan begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

June  22 Goffstown  N.H. Apotheca Flower Shop Open Mic-  Music & Poetry 7-9 p.m

SIGN UP AT THE SHOPPE  by calling 497-4940 or email us at:  

    http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/#/open-mic-night/        http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/

Born:

June 19

Annibale Caro, (1507 - 1566) Italian poet

http://www.centrostudicariani.it/English/Biography.aspx

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 08/16/1661) English writer

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/fuller_thomas_1710-1790.html

Blaise Pascal (1623 – 08/19/1662) French mathematician & philosopher -perfected the first mechanical calculator for sale to the public. In the field of physics, he discovered that air has weight and proved that vacuums are possible in nature. In mathematics, he founded the theory of probabilities and developed an early form of integral calculus. He also invented the syringe and the hydraulic press.Entered the Abbey of Port-Royal in January 1655 produced two great works of religious philosophy: Provincial Letters (1657) and Thoughts (1658).

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Blaise_Pascal

Charles H. Spurgeon (1834 – 01/31/1892) English clergy

“The best books...

The best books of men are soon exhausted--
they are cisterns, and not springing fountains.
You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance,
and you think you could hear them a hundred times over-
but you could not- you soon find them wearisome.
Very speedily a man eats too much honey:
even children at length are cloyed with sweets.

All human books grow stale after a time-
but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases,
while the more you know of it the less you think you know.

The Book grows upon you: as you dive into its depths
you have a fuller perception of the infinity which remains
to be explored. You are still sighing to enjoy more of that
which it is your bliss to taste.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2876959.Charles_H_Spurgeon

Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 05/07/1915) US writer

http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/

Elisabeth Marbury (1856 – 01/22/1933) US literary and theatrical agent

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=21813

Earl Douglas Haig (1861 – 01/29/1928) Scottish military

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

Johann Sigurjonsson, 1880 - Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/j%C3%B3hann-sigurj%C3%B3nsson-mn0001275833

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1884 -1974 French Dadaist artist and writer

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadaist%20texts/ribemont.htm

Moe Howard (1897 – 05/04/1975) US stooge

http://www.threestooges.com

Laura Z. Hobson (1900-1986), US  novelist, Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Award for Best Picture

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387740/

 [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, "Iron Horse",1903 – 1941 1st baseman (NY Yankees)

"Line-Up for Yesterday"

G is for Gehrig,
The Pride of the Stadium;
His record pure gold,
His courage, pure radium.

— Ogden Nash, SPORT (January 1949)^[65]

Tsushima Shuji Osamu Dazai  (1909-48) Japanese novelist and a master storyteller

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

Lester Flatt 1914 - May 11, 1979  Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lester-flatt-mn0000269172

Evelle J. Younger  (1918 – 05/04/1989)  US attorney general (CA)

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2008/perspectives091708.htm

Pauline Kael (1919 – 09/03/2001) US film critic

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/movies-1/why-paulin-kael-never-saw-a-mo.html

Tom Buchan (1931-October 18, 1995) Scottish poet

http://www.davidsmythe.org/scottish/tom-buchan/herald-obit.htm

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Tom+Buchan%22

Shirley Ann Roque "Cha Cha" Muldowney, 1940 – US  drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)

https://www.muldowney.com/

Muammar al-Gaddafi (1942 – )  Libyan military, political leader

http://www.allgov.com/US_and_the_World/ViewNews/Who_is_Muammar_al_Gaddafi_110223

Tobias Wolff, 1945 - US fiction writer and reporter

http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2003_12_001159.php

Greil Marcus  (1945- )editor ,music journalist and cultural critic reviews for Rolling Stone magazine.

http://www.amazon.com/Greil-Marcus/e/B000APB9MS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1340098061&sr=8-2

Salman Rushdie (1947) exiled Indian-English writer

http://www.amazon.com/Salman-Rushdie/e/B000APRXL4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1340098174&sr=8-1

Adrienne Gusoff  (1953 – )   US telegram

http://www.adriennegusoff.com/

Kathleen Turner (1954 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678/

Kimberley Leston, 1959 –95 Eng/Amer journalist

http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/bobby_orlando_bio.htm

Garfield the Cat, 1978 animated character

http://www.garfield.com/
Sarah Kay (1988-)  American poet. Known for her spoken word poetry, Kay is the founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E.,

http://kaysarahsera.com/

http://www.project-voice.net/

Passed:

Nathanael Greene, (1742-1786)  American Revolutionary general

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/greene.html
Richard Henry Lee,  - 1794   US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)

http://www.adherents.com/people/pl/Richard_Henry_Lee.html

Samuel Chase, 1811  US judge (signed Declar of Independence)

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000334

George Lincoln Prescott, 1864 US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Portrait_Exhibit/40.html

Henry Prince, 1892   Brigadier General (Union volunteers),

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=5893450&page=gr
John Dalberg Acton (01/10/1834 –1902) English historian

http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-3-number-1/lord-emerich-edward-dalberg-acton

Ramón López Velarde (June 15, 1888 –1921) Mexican poet  (La Sangre Devota)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ramon-lopez-velarde
Jerome K. Jerome (05/02/1859 –1927) English writer

http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/

Sir James M. Barrie  (05/09/1860 –1937) Scottish writer (Peter Pan)

http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/

The pirates “dreadful song:”

"Avast belay, yo ho,

heave to,

 A-pirating we go,

 And if we're parted by a shot

 We're sure to meet below!"

http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/peterpan/5/

Angelos Sikelianos (28 March 1884- 1951)  Greek lyric poet and playwright.

http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/books/angelos-sikelianos-selected-poems

Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney September 20 1873-1956 , German poet/writer

http://www.archive.org/stream/germanclassicsof17franuoft/germanclassicsof17franuoft_djvu.txt

Ethel Rosenberg, 1953 executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArosenbergT.htm
Julius Rosenberg, 1953 NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37

http://www.legalmetro.com/library/the-rosenberg-trial.html

Thomas John Watson, Jr.  (02/17/1874 – 1956)  US businessman (IBM president)
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/chairmen/chairmen_4.html

Ed Wynn  (11/09/1886 –1966)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943956/

Lee Krasner Pollock, (October 27, 1908 - 1984) US abstract expressionist painter

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3812
Len Bias November 18, 1963 -1986  Basketball rookie 1st pick of Celtics; OD’d

http://www.nndb.com/people/277/000174752/

I.F. Stone 1989 author

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/i._f._stone/

Hy Gardner, 1989 US newspaper columnist

http://www.erinemolloy.com/tag/hy-gardner/

Margherita Guidacci (April 25, 1921– 1992), Italian poet & translator

http://books.google.com/books/about/Landscape_With_Ruins.html?id=I-xNZi88FUQC

http://www.flaksearch.com/s/Margherita_Guidacci

William Golding (09/19/1911 –1993) English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-sir-william-golding-1493005.html

http://www.william-golding.co.uk/

Bobby Helms,  Aug.15,1933-1997US Country and Pop singer Christmas classic Jingle Bell Rock, http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bobby-helms-mn0000063722

Milka Hartman (11 February 1902 - 1997), Slovenian poet.

http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHartman%2C+Milka.&qt=hot_author

John Heyer, 1916- 2001 Australian documentary filmmaker
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/1.1/Gibson.html

Sites:

http://gladelys.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/white-lies-by-natasha-trethewey/

http://www.amtp.northwestern.edu/mercer.html

http://www.mcgowanfineart.com/

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

http://www.cliffhousemaine.com/

http://www.joelcage.com/

http://dailycaller.com/

History:

1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories

http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=6/19/2012

1865-  Juneteenth, also known as "Freedom Day" or "Emancipation Day." Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to spread the word that slavery had been abolished

http://www.juneteenth.com/

1940 - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-biz-brenda-starr-history-dec8,0,2872593.photogallery

1987 - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia

http://januarymagazine.com/biography/garcia.html

Bonus Poem:

Summary

Half the girls in this train car wear gold earrings, large and oval, bisected
by their names in script. They are yours because you name them,
your Lekenya, your Mirellie, your Yesenia.


Excessively ornate, almost illegible, like your grandmother's cramped
handwriting in a Hallmark card with loopy golden cursive relaying
every detail of the rest home in Orlando


where her former pastor now resides— the year of establishment,
the founder's name, what the food is like, how once someone moves in,
they have no plans of ever moving again.


Tomorrow, you settle on a plan for breakfast, you settle on banana. You are
not hungry. It sits there on the desk still in peel, nervous for inevitable
disrobing. Stare at Banana. You sit there. It is afraid.

                                                  Matthew Pennock

http://www.loveamongtheruins.com/matthew-pennock.html

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/matthew-pennock