2012

Jan. 1

Events:

Jan.3 Moultonboro (1^st Tuesday of the month) -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro - Features  Dudley Laufman followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)

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Click here(1767 – Click here/1849)   English novelist and teacher, Castle Rackrent (1800).

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Click here  (1819 – Click here/1861)   English Victorian writer / poet
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George Foster Shepley ( 1819 – July 20, 1878) Click here in the Click here during the Click here. He was appointed military and Click here

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Click here Kikkörös (1823-49 ) Hungarian poet revolutionary (Jáos Vitéz)

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Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-86) American poet

                 Aspects of the Pines

TALL, sombre, grim, against the morning sky

They rise, scarce touched by melancholy airs,

Which stir the fadeless foliage dreamfully,

As if from realms of mystical despairs.

Tall, sombre, grim, they stand with dusky gleams

Brightening to gold within the woodland's core,

Beneath the gracious noontide's tranquil beams--

But the weird winds of morning sigh no more.

A stillness, strange, divine, ineffable,

Broods round and o'er them in the wind's surcease,

And on each tinted copse and shimmering dell

Rests the mute rapture of deep-hearted peace.

Last, sunset comes--the solemn joy and might

Borne from the West when cloudless day declines--

Low, flutelike breezes sweep the waves of light,

And lifting dark green tresses of the pines,

Till every lock is luminous--gently float,

Fraught with hale odors up the heavens afar

To faint when twilight on her virginal throat

Wears for a gem the tremulous vesper star.

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William Hugh Young 1838 -1901 Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
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Maria Louise Ramé Click here  Bury St. Edmunds  1839 – Click here/1908)  English writer /screenwriter (A Dog of Flanders, The Little Dutch Girl)
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Click here  (1854 – Click here/1941)  Scottish writer / anthropologist (The Golden Bough)

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Click here (1879 – Click here/1970) English novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India)

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George W Meyer 1884 - Click here, Click here ( US composer/lyricist (Bells of St. Mary's, Broadway Babies)

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Chesley Bonestell 1888 - 11 June 1986 US special effects/actor/writer (Swiss Family Robinson, War of the Worlds) "Father of Modern Click here".

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Click here  (1895 – Click here/1972)  US Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation

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Click here  (1897 – Click here/1973)  US writer
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Click here (1928-feb4,80) Guinean novelist, short Click here, and essayist, (L'Enfant noir (1953, The African Click here))

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Click here  (1903( or 1933 ) – Click here/1967)  British playwright -actor/ Prick Up Your Ears)

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Click here  (1909 – Click here/1998)  US Senator (AZ) 1953-65, 69- )/Presidential candidate (R) 1964)

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Click here  (1919 – Click here/2010)  US writer -novelist (Catcher in the Rye)

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Click here  (1922 – )  US Senator (SC) 1966- )
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Click here  (1926 – Click here/2003);  African dictator

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 Don Novello [Father Guido Sarducci], 1943-  US comedian (SNL)

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Jacques Ickx 1945 - Belgium, Le Mans auto race (6-time winner)

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Jaco Pastorius 1951 – Sep 21, 1987 rocker

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Passed:

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Click here  (1640 – 01/01/1716)  English writer -dramatist (The Country Wife)

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Arthur Middleton ( 1742 - 1787 )   US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)

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Click here (13 December 1804 -1873) Canadian Victorian,pol/ journalist/poet

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Click here (1858- 1918) Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades)[ 1884-worked as rector of the congregations of West Claremont, New Hampshire]

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Click here  (Click here/1923 –1953)  US country singer, songwriter ( Cold Cold Heart)

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I’ll Never get Out of this World Alive Now you’re lookin’ at a man that’s gettin’ kind-a mad I had lot’s of luck but it’s all been bad No  matter how I struggle and strive I’ll never get out of this world alive. My fishin’ pole’s broke the creek is full of sand My woman run away with another man No matter how I struggle and strive I’ll never get out of this world alive. A distant uncle passed away and left me quite a batch And  I was livin’g high until that fatal  day A lawyer  proved I wasn’t born I was only hatched.--- Ev’rything’s agin’ me and it’s got me down If I jumped in the river I would prob’ly drown No matter how I struggle and strive I’ll never get out of this world alive. These shabby shoes I’m wearin’ all the time Are full of holes and nails And brother if I stepped on a worn out dime I bet a nickel I could tell you if it was heads or tails. I’m not gonna worry Click here in my brow ’cause nothin’s ever gonna be alright nohow No matter how I struggle and strive I’ll never get out of this world alive.

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Donagh MacDonagh (12 November 1912 –1968) Irish writer, judge, Click here, broadcaster, and playwright.

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Click here  (Click here/1906 –1992)  US computer scientist, programmer, inventor of COBOL

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John Townes Van Zandt (Mar 7, 1944 -1997) US musician/songwriter

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Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II (December 18, 1941 - 2002) Click here Click here and Click here writer.

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History:

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New Year

New Year, I look straight in your eyes -
Our ways and our interests blend;
You may be a foe in disguise,
But I shall believe you a friend.
We get what we give in our measure,
We cannot give pain and get pleasure;
I give you good will and good cheer,
And you must return it, New Year.

We get what we give in this life,
Though often the giver indeed
Waits long upon doubting and strife
Ere proving the truth of my creed.
But somewhere, some way, and forever
Reward is the meed of endeavour;
And if I am really worth while,
New Year, you will give me your smile.

You hide in your mystical hand
No “luck” that I cannot control,
If I trust my own courage and stand
On the Infinite strength of my soul.
Man holds in his brain and his spirit
A power that is God-like, or near it,
And he who has measured his force
Can govern events and their course.

You come with a crown on your brow,
New Year, without blemish or spot;
Yet you, and not I, sir, must bow,
For time is the servant of thought
Whatever you bring me of trouble
Shall turn into good, and then double,
If my spirit looks up without fear
To the Source that you came from, New Year.

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Bonus Poem:

28. Vision

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Picture-Show. 1920.

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