March  12

Events:

March 12, Cambridge, MA: The Blacksmith House Poetry Series will present Jake Adam York, author of Persons Unknown, and Paul Hostovsky, author of the poetry collection Dear Truth. Tickets are $3 each and may be purchased 45 minutes before the reading. At 8 p.m., Blacksmith House (617-547-6789; Click here).

March 12  Conway  . 6:30pm Open Mic Night will feature Puckerbrush, a local acoustic band. Wanna share your talents? Open floor from 6:30-7:20pm, then Puckerbrush plays from 7:30-8:30pm. Refreshments served. Listeners very welcome, too! (447-5552) (CPL at 447-5552

March 12  Portsmouth  – 7-9 pm – Breaking New Grounds, Portsmouth – Stone Pigeon – Features followed by open mike (Click here  and on Facebook)

Born:

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Click here (1626-June 7,1697), English biographer and antiquary

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Click here (1799- Jan30,1888 ) English Victorian novelist

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David Stuart 1816-Sept.11,1868 Brigadier General (Union volunteers)

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William Felix Brantley 1830-Nov.2,1870 Brigadier General (Confederate Army),

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Clement Studebaker 1831 - November 27, 1901) American wagon and carriage manufacturer /automobile pioneer (Studebaker)

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Simon Newcomb (1835 – July 11, 1909) Click here-Click here Click here and Click here.

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Click here (1863-March 1,1938) Italian poet, novelist and dramatist, military hero

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Click here (1889 – Click here/1944) British Click here, historical writer, travel writer and Click here

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Rui Ribeiro Couto (1898-May 30,1963), Brazilian poet and short story writer

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Click here  (1906 – Click here/1965)  US Representative (ID)
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Click here (1912-1988) Australian novelist, short story writer, literary critic

Irving Layton (1912 – Click here/2006) Romanian-Canadian writer

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MISUNDERSTANDING

I placed
my hand
upon
her thigh.

By the way
she moved
away
I could see
her devotion
to literature
was not
perfect.

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Click here  (1922 – Click here/1999)  US union leader

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[Jean-LouisLebris de] Jack Kerouac, (1922 - 21 October 1969) American beat writer

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Click here (1928-  ) U S playwright

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Click here  (1932 – )  US actor
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Click here  (03/12/1932 – )  US mayor (Atlanta)

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John Gross 1935 – 10 January 2011   English author, anthologist, literary and theatrical critic

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Click here (1936-Feb .19,2002), African American children's author and novelist; Newbery Medal and the National Book Award

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Click here  (1946 – )  US entertainer
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James Taylor (1948 – ) US singer, songwriter

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Click here  (1952). American poet and fiction author

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Click here  (1953). US novelist  ; his young-adult novel Hoot (2002) the Newbery Award

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Click here 1956- Finn Novelist

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Passed:

March 12

Gabriel TéllezTirso de Molina (October, 1571? -, 1648) Click here Click here Click here, poet &  Roman Catholic monk.

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John Peter Altgeld (30th December, 1847 -1902) German/US Governor of Illinois

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The Eagle That is Forgotten

The Eagle That Is Forgotten

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(John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinois and my next-door neighbor, 1893-1897.

Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.   "We have buried him now," thought your foes, and in secret rejoiced. They made a brave show of their mourning, their hatred unvoiced. They had snarled at you, barked at you, foamed at you, day after day. Now you were ended. They praised you ... and laid you away.   The others, that mourned you in silence and terror and truth, The window bereft of her crust, and the boy without youth, The mocked and the scorned and the sounded, the lame and the poor, That should have remembered forever, ... Remember no more.   Where are those lovers of yours, on what name do they call, The lost, that in armies wept over your funeral pall? They call on the names of a hundred high-valiant ones, A hundred white eagles have risen, the sons of your sons, The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began. The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man.   Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own. Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame -- To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name, To live in mankind, far, far more than ... to live in a name

 Born December 30, 1847; died March 12, 1902.)

Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone.

Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.

“We have buried him now,” thought your foes, and in secret rejoiced.

They made a brave show of their mourning, their hatred unvoiced.

They had snarled at you, barked at you, foamed at you day after day,

Now you were ended. They praised you . . . and laid you away.

The others that mourned you in silence and terror and truth,

The widow bereft of her crust, and the boy without youth,

The mocked and the scorned and the wounded, the lame and the poor,

That should have remembered forever . . . remember no more.

Where are those lovers of yours, on what name do they call,

The lost, that in armies wept over your Click here pall?

They call on the names of a hundred high-valiant ones,

A hundred white eagles have risen the sons of your sons,

The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began

The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man.

Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone,

Time has its way with you there and the clay has its own.

Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame—

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,

To live in mankind, far, far more . . . than to live in a name.

Click here (Click here/1830 – 1916) Austrian writer
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Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 - 1947) Click here novelist.

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Click here (Click here/1920 –1955) US jazz great

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Click here  (Click here/1884 –1957)  US actor

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John Cazale (Click here, Click here -1978)  US actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter)

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Click here  (Click here/1904 –1986) US harmonica player
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Click here  (Click here/1913 –1987) US football coach
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Click here (Click here/1910 –1993) US writer

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Click here (Click here/1933 –2001) US talk show host, actor, composer (wrote Wipe Out and Pipeline!)

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Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 –2003) Click here novelist and television writer

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History:

March 12

(1864) The Round Table publishes Emily Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"

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Life
XIII. A Prayer.

IClick here meant to have but modest needs,
Such as content, and heaven;
Within my income these could lie,
And life and I keep even.

ButClick here since the last included both,
It would suffice my prayer
But just for one to stipulate,
And grace would grant the pair.

AndClick here so, upon this wise I prayed, --
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours,
But large enough for me.

AClick here smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.

IClick here left the place with all my might, --
My prayer away I threw;
The quiet ages picked it up,
And Judgment twinkled, too,

ThatClick here one so honest be extant
As take the tale for true
That "Whatsoever you shall ask,
Itself be given you."

ButClick here I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All swindlers be, infer.

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Happy 100^th Birthday GSUSA

1912 The Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) is a Click here for girls in the United States and American girls Click here. It was founded by Click here in 1912 and was organized after Low met Click here, the founder of Click here, in 1911. Upon returning to Click here, she made her historic telephone call to a distant cousin, saying, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!"

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Bonus Poem:

Winter Song

Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.

Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Will the Winter never go?
What do beggar children do
With no fire to cuddle to,
P'raps with nowhere warm to go?
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.

Hail and ice, and ice and hail,
Water frozen in the pail.
See the robins, brown and red,
They are waiting to be fed.
Poor dears, battling in the gale!
Hail and ice, and ice and hail.

                                     Katherine Mansfield

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