AUGUST 8

Events:

August 8, Exeter: The Poetry Series at Water Street ;l another night of open mic opportunities!. Please bring one or two poems and arrive early to sign up. At 6:30 p.m., Water Street Bookstore (603-778-9731; http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/

SOON:

Aug 12 Manchester Currier Museum Inspired Words- writers are invited to take inspiration from the current exhibit of realist/abstracted landscape paintings of Eric Aho. The exhibit is a wonderful collection of very large canvasses and writers can choose from any image to craft their words.

We will gather to read our works at 2 PM on Sunday, August 12th in the exhibit gallery at the Currier Museum  http://currier.org/  in Manchester. If you are interested in participating, please send your writing to inspiredwords.currier.org   by Friday, August 10th or contact Kim Tyndall at 603-895-8627.

Poetry, prose, lyrics, rap, haiku…or any other form of written inspiration is welcome! Come see the paintings! They will inspire great thoughts and great words. Come to listen to the stories others have found in the visual works of Eric Aho… For a glimpse of his work, look here: http://currier.org/uploadedFiles/Exhibitions/Transcending%20Nature.pdf

Born:

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Jacques Basnage de Beauval, 1653 -September 23, 1723) Protestant theologian and historian

, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. History of the Reformed Churches and on Jewish Antiquities.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Basnage,_Jacques

Francis Hutcheson, 1694- Aug 8,1745  Scot moral philosopher

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3885&Itemid=28

Charles Bulfinch, 1763 -– April 15, 1844) first native-born American architect

http://www.bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Beacon_Hill

Charles Anderson Dana (1819– 10/17/1897) US newspaper magnate

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19067053

Matthew Henson 1866- March 9,1955. African American explorer

Louise Lester Beal  (1867 – 11/18/1952)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504490/

Sara Teasdale  (1884 – 01/29/1933)  US writer / Poet   Stars

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sara-teasdale

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Teasdale%2C%20Sara%2C%201884-1933

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. 1896  - December 14, 1953  US  writer ;wrote The Yearling, 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize. Cross Creek.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/marjorie-kinnan-rawlings/

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 1902 – 20 October 1984)n English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html

Arthur J. Goldberg  (1908 – 01/19/1990)  US attorney

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

Donald Davidson (1893-April 25,1968 ) US. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author; founding member of the circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.

http://wnpt.org/productions/fugitives/thepoems_davidson.html

http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=357

                                                       from   Sanctuary

Go further on. Go high. Go deep.
The line of this rail-fence east across the old-fields
Leads to the cane-bottoms. Back of that,
A white-oak tree beside a spring, the one
Chopped with three blazes on the hillward side.
There pick up the trail. I think it was
A buffalo path once or an Indian road.
You follow it three days along the ridge
Until you reach the spruce woods. Then a cliff
Breaks, where the trees are thickest, and you look
Into a cove, and right across, Chilhowee
Is suddenly there, and you are home at last.
Sweet springs of mountain water in that cove
Run always. Deer and wild turkey range.
Your kin, knowing the way, long there before you
Will have good fires and kettles on to boil,
Bough-shelters reared and thick beds of balsam.

http://allpoetry.com/Donald_Grady_Davidson

Daniel Mann, 1912 - November 21, 1991 US director (Willard, Butterfield 8)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542702/

Agnar Mykle  1915- Jan 15, 1994 Norwegian writer

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

Dino DeLaurentis 1919-2010 Italian-American film producer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209569/

Esther Williams  (1921 – )  US swimming actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930565/

Terry Nation (1930-– 9 March 1997) Welsh screenwriter and novelist- he created the DALEKs,

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5106

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622334/

Dustin Hoffman  (1937 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000163/

Keith Carradine  (1949 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001018/

Robin Quivers  (1952 – )  US radio, TV person
http://www.robinquivers.com/#/Home

Valerie Sayers 1952, US writer of comic novels - Due East, Who Do You Love? and How I Got Him Back,

http://www.nd.edu/~vsayers/biography.html

http://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Sayers/e/B000APM4RC

Elizabeth Ann Tallent. 1954, US  short-story writer and novelist  She began writing stories, selling her first one, "Ice," to The New Yorker when she was twenty-six years old, then following that up with "Why I Love Country Music."

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Elizabeth+Ann+Tallent.+

Passed:

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Silvester Gardiner (  29-Jun-1708 - 1786) Colonial American pharmacist

http://www.mainememory.net/artifact/12397/

Ueda Akinari, "Ueda Shūsei" (July 251734-1809 ), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet

HAIKU

Cherry bossoms fall
Entering into the dreams
Of lovely women.

                            [translated by Blake Morgan Young]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translatinghaiku/message/1634

George Canning  (04/11/1770 –1827) British PM (19) statesman and politician     

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

Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 –1854)  Irish antiquary, author of Irish Fairy Tales,

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/143779/Thomas-Crofton-Croker

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?122486

Alexander William Doniphan, July 9, 1808 –1887 American attorney, soldier and politician American lawyer and soldier

http://www.claycountyarchives.org/hist02.htm

Shirley Jackson  (12/14/1919 –1965)  US writer

http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jackson_shirley

http://www.mainememory.net/artifact/12397/

Eric Walrond (Dec 18,1898-1966 ) Author Tropic Death

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Eric%20Walrond&ie=UTF8&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank

Vilhelm Moberg ( Aug 20,1898-1973) Swedish author, playwright and historian, The Emigrants

http://www.vilhelmmoberg.com/english.html

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – 1975)   jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.- 1966 single "Mercy Mercy Mercy",

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cannonball-adderley-mn0000548338

Louise Brooks  (11/14/1906 –1985)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000315/
Sen. Thomas J McIntyre, February 20 ,1915-1992 US, senator/(D-NH) writer (Fear Brokers)

http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/legport1/mcintyre.html

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-J.-McIntyre/e/B001KIA7MW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Fay Wray  (09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942039/

Patricia Neal  (01/20/1926  – 08/08/2010)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623658/

RIP :

Marvin Hamlisch ( 1944–2012) Music –The Sting

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006121/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marvin-hamlisch-mn0000167399

Sites:

http://www.sncorp.com/

http://www.reddoorpottery.com/index.html

http://theoddluminary.com/

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf

http://www.photowalks.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=V7hl2C2g15oC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

History:

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1908 The Wright Brothers made their first public flight on this day in, a spin by Wilbur around a racecourse in Le Mans, France.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighttime2.html

1940. The German Luftwaffe began its attack of the British Isles - The Battle of Britain was intended to wipe out the Royal Air Force before Germany invaded England.Due to their use of radar, the R.A.F. knocked down three times as many German aircraft as it lost, and Hitler called off the invasion. It was Germany's first major defeat.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/timeline_of_the_battle_of_britai.htm

1959 The New Yorker publishes Ted Hughes “Bullfrog”

http://ann.skea.com/timeline.htm

BULLFROG

With their lithe, long, strong legs,
Some frogs are able
To thump upon double-
Bass strings, though pond water deadens and clogs.

But you, bullfrog, you pump out
Whole fogs full of horn – a threat
As of a liner looming. True
That, first hearing you
Disgorging your gouts of darkness like a wounded god,
Not utterly fantastically, I expected
(As in some antique tale depicted)
A broken-down bull up to its belly in mud,
Sucking black swamp up, belching out black cloud

And a squall of gudgeon and lilies.

A surprise

Now, to see you, a boy’s prize,
No bigger than a rat, with all dumb silence
In your little old woman’s hands.

http://poetshouse.blogspot.com/2006/03/ted-hughes-poems.html

1974 Richard Nixon, facing impeachment over Watergate, resigned from the presidency

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a080974nixonresigns

Bonus Poem:

The List Thing

I can’t do the list thing, work my way through
your parts as if you were a jointed model, a corpse
on the dissecting table. You’re too alive, too whole, too known.

I can’t relish you by touch and taste and sight and smell
in the silent ways we once devoted nights and days to,
lying in grass or sand or sheets. Those were days and ways

of exploration, of obsession, of spying in unfamiliar places.
Now we’re in possession such intimacy is odd,
although that dip sliding from waist to hip still mesmerises,

your breath on the nape of my neck still opens
the evening to fields of whispering nerve ends, cocked
as taut as the ears of foxes on our first night walk.

                                         Helen Jagger

http://www.secondlightlive.co.uk/about.shtml#Mem