Nov 8

Events:

11/8		7PM		Local Sprouts, 649 Congress Street, Portland, ME		Steve Subrizi & a poetry slam Click here

Born:

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Sir Edmond Halley 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an Click here Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, and Click here    Click here

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 – April 20, 1912) Click here novelist and short story writer

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Click here 1888-1972 Finnish novelist, essayist, critic, artist, and scholar

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Oswald J.effrey  Smith (1889 - January 25, 1986) was a Canadian pastor, author, and missions advocate. - authored a number of books and composed more than 1,200 hymns

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Click hereClick here (1900 – Click here/1949) US writer (Gone With the Wind)
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Arthur J. M. Smith Arthur James Marshall Smith (1902 – November 21, 1980) Click here and anthologist.        Click here

To Hold In a Poem

I would take words

As crisp and as white

As our snow; as our birds

Swift and sure in their flight;

As clear and as cold

As our ice; as strong as a jack pine;

As young as a trillium, and old

As Laurentia's long undulant line;

Sweet-smelling and bright

As new rain; as hard

And as smooth and as white

As a brook pebble cold and unmarred;

To hold in a poem of words

Like water in colourless glass

The spirit of mountains like birds,

Of forests as pointed as grass;

To hold in a verse as austere

As the spirit of prairie and river,

Lonely, unbuyable, dear,

The North, as a deed, and forever.

                                                                 A.J.M. Smith

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Click here   1909-98 American novelist and short story writer, one of the most celebrated war reporter         Click here

Peter Weiss 1916- 1982  Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)

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Gene Saks 1921-    US actor/director
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Click hereClick here (1922 – Click here/2001)S. African surgeon
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Click herePatti Page Clara Ann Fowler 1927-  ,American singer (Tennessee Waltz)
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Click hereClick here (1931 – ) Canadian telejournalist
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Click hereClick here (1949 – ) US singer, guitarist
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Click here  (1954). Japanease/English Novelist

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Passed:

November 8

Click here (Click here/1608 –1674) English writer 
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ON TIME

  FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race,

  Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,

  Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;

  And glut thy self with what thy womb devours,

  Which is no more then what is false and vain,

  And meerly mortal dross;

  So little is our loss,

  So little is thy gain.

  For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd,

  And last of all, thy greedy self consum'd,                           10

  Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss

  With an individual kiss;

  And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,

  When every thing that is sincerely good

  And perfectly divine,

  With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine

  About the supreme Throne

  Of him, t'whose happy-making sight alone,

  When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime,

  Then all this Earthy grosnes quit,                                   20

  Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit,

  Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.

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Click hereClick here (Click here/1754 –1793) French Revolutionary
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Click here (Click here/1883 –1965) French modern-day composer
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Dorothy Kilgallen  July3,1913 -1965   American columnist
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Norman   Percevel  Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – 1978) 20th-century American painter and illustrator.

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Robert Agnew June 4, 1899 -1983   American Silent film director

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Click here (Click here/1919 –1988) US diplomat, educator
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Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 1990) Click here of Ann Seton, an Click here author of historical romances.

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History:

Click here1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)

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Click here1837 Mt. Holyoke Seminary first opened in Massachusetts. Founded by Mary Lyon, 39, it was the first college in the U.S. established specifically for the education of women.

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1933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration

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1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-MA) becomes 1st black elected to Senate

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Bonus Poem:

The Brain Is Smart

I’m sure they stayed awake the night before

and found a way to each other   and harvested

on a continent   with a photograph 

we the carriers    and permission to enter

and populate  and make home  and almost disintegrate

America,  remember falling and reproduction

for the grassland and our sing-along.  

                                                                                                                                           Natalie Lyalin

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