October  5

Events:

October 5, Exeter: Coffeehouse at First Unitarian-Universalist Society. Features {singer-songwriter from Beverly, Mass, Ms. Amy Spillert.  AND Robert Crawford reading from his new book, “The Empty Chair”. at 7:00 p.m., open mike at 8:15. Suggested donation, $3-5. (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net

And next week-

October 10, Exeter: Neil English and Joann Duncanson Are Featured, followed by open mike at the Water Street Bookstore, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com

And the next week

Oct 17,Exeter In Honor of Charlie Pratt. Everyone is invited to come to Water Street Book Store in Exeter on Oct 17 from 6 to 7:30. The Voice and Vision piece made by Charlie and Kit Cornell will be installed at Water Street. "Poems will be read by Charlie's friends John Perrault, Marie Harris, Mimi White, and Katie Towler. Finally, Joan Pratt will read some of Charlie's poetry. . Refreshments also

Born:

10/05

Denis Diderot (1713 – 07/30/1784)  French philosopher, encyclopedist and writer

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/denis_diderot.html

http://www.egs.edu/library/denis-diderot/biography/

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Thimothée d'Eon de Beaumont  ( 1728-May 21,1810) Diplomat, writer, spy, and Freemason, a member of the elite Dragoons and one of the best swordsmen of France

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

Chester Allen Arthur  (1830 – 11/18/1886)  US President (21), VP (20)

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/caarthur.html

John Addington Symonds (1840 - 19 April 1893) English poet and literary critic

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18044/18044-h/18044-h.htm

By Loe Pool

THE pool glitters, the fishes leap in the sun

With joyous fins, and dive in the pool again;

I see the corn in sheaves, and the harvestmen,

And the cows coming down to the water one by one.

Dragon-flies mailed in lapis and malachite

Flash through the bending reeds and blaze on the pool;

Sea-ward, where trees cluster, the shadow is cool;

I hear a singing, where the sea is, out of sight;

It is noontide, and the fishes leap in the pool.

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/symons01.html#15

 Helen Churchill Candee (Hungerford, ) (1858-, American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist and geographer. How Women May Earn a Living (1900).
http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Churchill-Candee/e/B00335Q5AS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_14?qid=1349425449&sr=8-14

http://www.charlespellegrino.com/passengers/helen_candee.htm

John Erskine (/1879 – 06/02/1951) US educator, writer, musician

http://www.weehawkenhistory.org/view_item.php?id=88159&back=0&category=

Robert Goddard, (1882- Aug 10,1945)American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket,   ).
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sgoddard.htm

Ray Kroc (1902 – 01/14/1984) US restaurant magnate (McDonald's)
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/our_story/our_history/the_ray_kroc_story.html

Larry Fine (1902 – 01/24/1975)  US stooge
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=338

Joshua Logan (1908 – 07/12/1988) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517597/

Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan (1911 – 04/01/1966)  Irish writer and humorist At-Swim-Two-Birds (1939),

http://www.univie.ac.at/flannobrien2011/IFOBS.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/05/flann-obrien-loveable-literary-genius?newsfeed=true

Herbert Kretzmer (1925 – ) S. African journalist, lyricist
http://www.herbertkretzmer.com/history.htm

Vaclav Havel (/1936 – ) Czech President nd playwright
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vaclav_havel.html

Barry Switzer (/1937 – )  US football coach
http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/barry_switzer.html

Sir Bob Geldof  (1951 – )  English singer (Boomtown Rats)

http://www.bobgeldof.com/

Clive Barker  (/1952 – )  English writer
http://www.clivebarker.info/

Bernie Mac  (/1957 – 08/09/2008)  US comic
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005170/

Maya Ying Lin  (/1959 – )  US architect, sculptor (designed US Vietnam vet and civil rights memorials)
http://www.mayalin.com/

Kate Winslet  (1975 – ) English actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/

Passed:

10/05

António Diniz da Cruz e Silva 1731-1799 Portuguese/Brazilian  heroic comic poet Hyssope

http://osgrandeselvenses.blogspot.com/2007/03/antnio-dinis-da-cruz-e-silva.html

Claude Arthur Cary Askew  (27 November 1865-1917 )  British Co-novelist with wife(  Alice Jane de Courcy Leake) Fantasies

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?82777

http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/08/alice-claure-askew.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039422/

Jacques Offenbach June 20, 1818-1880  Composer /Inventor of the the opérette

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jacques-offenbach-mn0000756534

Dwight Morrow  (01/11/1873 –1931)  US statesman

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21514

Louis D. Brandeis  (11/13/1856 –/1941)  US Supreme Court Justice

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

Alfred Kroeber  ( June 11, 1876-1960  ) Pioneer in American Anthropology

http://www.thebicyclingguitarist.net/ishi/

Harry Emerson Fosdick  (05/24/1878 –1969) American pastor
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/pastorsandpreachers/fosdick.html

Walter Hagen  (12/21/1892 –1969)  US golfer

http://www.worldgolfhalloffame.org/hof/member.php?member=1054

Gloria Grahame  (11/28/1923 –1981)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002108/

Mike Mansfield  (03/16/1903 –2001)  US senator (MT) ,
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mjmansfield.htm

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers6/mansfield.html

Rodney Dangerfield  (11/22/1921 –2004)  US comic

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001098/
Bert Jansch  ( Nov 3, 1943-2011 ) Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle

Do You Hear Me Now? :

Freedom fighters speak with your tongues
Sing with the might of the wind
In your lungs, do you hear me now?
My mama told me, papa said it too
Son, the world's divided and you know
Your cause is true , do you hear me now?
Can you see those mushrooms seed and burst
Spreading through our valleys breeding hunger
Breeding thirst. Do you hear me now?

Snowing in the winter, blossoms in the spring
If they drop the bomb in the summertime
It don't mean a dog-gone thing
Do you hear me now?
Do you hear me now?

Freedom fighters speak with your tongues
Sing with the might of the wind
In your lungs, do you hear me now?
Do you hear me now?

                                                     Bert Jansch

http://www.lyricsmania.com/do_you_hear_me_now_lyrics_bert_jansch.html

http://vimeo.com/32694756

Steven Jobs  (02/24/1955 –2011)  US entrepreneur

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/

Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. (Nov 6, 1930 –, 2011) African-American Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and one of the originators of critical race theory

http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/34630-1/Derrick+Bell.aspx

https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?section=bio&personID=19776

Sites:

http://www.nhcte.org/

http://www.mansfieldsbooksandmore.com/default.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/

http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/

http://www.closermag.fr/

http://artstreamstudios.com/

History:

10/05

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-American writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1925, Ernest Hemingway published his first book in America, a collection of stories called In Our Time. It included the stories, "Big Two-Hearted River," "Soldier's Home," and "My Old Man."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/inourtime/section33.rhtml

1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct05.html

Bonus Poem:

The Autumn Wind

By Wu-ti (157-87 B. C. ), sixth emperor of the Han dynasty.
He came to the throne when he was only sixteen. In this poem he re-
grets that he is obliged to go on an official journey, leaving his mistress
behind in the capital. He is seated in his state barge, surrounded by his
ministers.

Autumn wind rises: white clouds fly.
Grass and trees wither: geese go south.
Orchids all in bloom: chrysanthemums smell sweet.
I think of my lovely lady: I never can forget.
Floating-pagoda boat crosses Fen River.
Across the mid-stream white waves rise;
Flute and drum keep time to sound of rowers' song;
Amidst revel and feasting, sad thoughts come;
Youth's years how few! Age how sure!

Wu-ti (157-87 B.C.)
Translated by Arthur Waley (1889-1966)

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw315.html