20   EVENTS: Exeter, November20th 7:30 PM…FUUSE Sanctuary12 Elm Street Exeter, NH Arts on Elm Street presents John Tyson’s Universal Village  Click here.   NOVEMBER 20TH Peterborough 2 PM poets BECKY SAKELLARIOU and CHARLES PRATT reading from and signing their new collections of poetry, 12 Depot SquareCity:  Peterborough  03458-1421Click here    /603-924-3543 email Click here   11/20   7PM   MinFull Books and Ephemera, 29 Main Street, Jaffrey, NH   Brand new Venue! Host is Brandi MacDonald. Potluck followed by open mic and features, Christopher Clauss & Robert Gibbs . $3 cover. More info at mailto: Click here     BIRTHDAYS:   Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (Click here- 1682) Click here Artus II Quellinus "the Young",Click here -  Flemish sculptor Click here Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (1625 - 1654) Click here Romanus Weichlein, Click here -  composer Click here Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (Click here - 1741) Click here Jean Francois de la Harpe, miscellaneous writer Click here Thomas Chatterton  (1752 – 08/24/1770)  English writer Click here Click here Click here Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940) Click here Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (1896 - 1977) Click here Click here (Alexander) Westermarck (1862-1939) Finnish social anthropologist, philosopher, and sociologist   Click here Alistair Cooke  (1908 – 03/29/2004)  English cultural commentator Click here Kon Ichikawa, Click here -  Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks) Click here       Click here “ Sister" Corita Kent  (1918 – 09/18/1986)  US artist Click here Click here (1923 )South African novelist and short-story writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991   Click here Click here Click here 1936 American novelist and playwright, Click here Click here Robert F. Kennedy (1925 – 06/06/1968)   US politician Click here R. W. "Johnny" Apple   (1934 – 10/04/2006)   US journalist Click here Joe Walsh 1947  U.S.musician  Click here   In the City Somewhere out on that horizon Out beyond the neon lights I know there must be somethin' better But there's nowhere else in sight It's survival in the city When you live from day to day City streets don't have much pity When you're down, that's where you'll stay In the city, oh, oh. In the city I was born here in the city With my back against the wall Nothing grows and life ain't very pretty No one's there to catch you when you fall Somewhere out on that horizon Far away from the neon sky I know there must be somethin' better And I can't stay another night In the city, oh, oh. In the city                                                                   Click here, Joe Walsh   PASSED Cardinal de Polignac, statesman and man of letters, 1741, Click here Roger Payne, bookbinder, 1797; Click here Click here 1793-1847 Scot Poet Click here Tom Hood the younger (19 January 1835 - 1874), Eng humorist and playwright Click here John Harington, English writer (1561- Click here)  Click here Allan Sherman   (11/30/1924 –1973)   US comic Click here Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), Click here Click here Robert Altman   (02/20/1925 –2006)   US film director Click here Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist  1875-1957 Click here Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet/writer, Click here Click here Maxie Wander, writer, Click here Click here Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet 1890-Click here Click here Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), Click here Click here John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), Click here Click here Christopher Frank, French writer, Click here Click here Emile Ardolino, 1993 -  director (Dirty Dancing) Click here John Lucarotti, scriptwriter Click here Click here Saeedi Sirjani, 1994 - Iranian poet Click here   Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet 1931-Click here                                 We Didn't Know   Had we advanced a bit further Our path would have perhaps led to the sea, Our sleep would have perhaps turned into dream. Had we paddled more Perhaps we would have an agreeable wind, If we didn't return to the coast, The water would perhaps have sucked our corpses into the depth. We were neither a rushing river, To gallop over, obstacles, sharp ends, plains to... the sea, Neither were we a moat to serve as watering trough for the mangy wolf... Nor a mangy wolf which is after its carnal desires, To submit ..... to the secret moment of a cursed death undisturbed. We didn't who called us, when and why? whom we called  and why we joined the path Or why we were delayed. .... We didn't know who we were and when we existed, And who has tied this dog inside ourselves to the chain of our vein, And when. We don't know who we were and who we are, Whether our pain was from a wound inflected by a heavenly stone Or we ourselves are a stinking wound in the body of existence... ... We didn't know.   Click here Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist 1935-Click here Click here Max Robertson, British radio and television sports commentator,and author 1915-2009 Click here       SITES: Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here   HISTORY: 1934 - Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC Click here Click here   BONUS POEM:   Ephemera   THERE is a woman who makes my eye A place of shadows, as now and then I see her dimly going by, And faintly coming back again. She moves as many others move; There is no uttrance in her tread To tempt an echo, nor to prove What other footsteps have not said. As often as she comes and goes She is forgotten, as now and then The wind is forgotten until it blows A blur of dust down the street again.                                        Hazel Hall Click here