March21 

Events:

March 21, Rochester: The fourth Semi-Final for New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud will take place at 7 p.m., Rochester Opera House. The snow date will be on March 22 at 7 p.m. (Click here).

March 21, Concord 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured readers Martha Carlson-Bradley & David Davis followed by open mic  224-0562 hosted by Don Kimball (Click here) ]

March 21,Farmington Goodwin Library Pat O'Brien in Concert. 6:00 P.M Upstairs in the Women's Club. Please come and support Pat and hear all her wonderful original songs and stories. Click here

Born:

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Click here (1685 – Click here/1750) German composer

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Francis Lewis  1713- Dec.30,1803 signed Declaration of Independence as a representative of Click here.
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Click here (1763 – Click here/1825) German writer

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Henry Kirke White (1785-Oct .19,1806) Eng poet

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Benito Pablo Juárez   1806 – July 18,1882 Click here, President of México (1858-72)

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Charlotte Bronte 1816-1854 novelist/poet as Currier Bell

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Mathilde Blind (1841- 26 November 1896) ) Eng Poetess

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Gustaf von Numers (1848-Feb.6,1913) Finnish playwright, colaboration with Click here\

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Geoffrey Dearmer 1893-1996 Eng WWI poet

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Eddie James "Son" House 1902-October 19, 1988 Folk blues musician (Delta Blues)

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Phyllis McGinley 1905 – Click here/1978 US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)

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John Paxton, Click here –Jan.5,1985 US screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)

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Peter Bull, Click here –May20,1984  Brit.actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)

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Max Youngstein, 1913 - Click here, Click here  NYC, producer (United Artists)

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Click here (1918 – Click here/1995) US sportscaster

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Nizar Quabbani (1923-May1,1998),Syrian diplomat, poet, essayist and playwright

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                Dialogue

Do not say my love was
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My love is a siege,
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Who, searching sail out to their death.

Do not say my love was
A moon.
My love is a burst of sparks.

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Peter Brook, 1925 - London, director (1776)/TV writer

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Click here (1946 – Click here/2004) US director

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Ayrton Senna 1960-May1,1994 Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champion)

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Click here  (1946 – )  English actor

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Click here  (1958 – )   English actor
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Click here   (1962 – )   US actor
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Passed:

March 21

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (12 February 1777 -1843) Click here Click here poet and novelist

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Click here  (Click here/1774 –1843)  English writer -Romantic poet laureate,

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Edwin Vose Sumner (  Jan.30,1797- 1863) US Union-General-Major (Fair Oaks)
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Click here  (Click here/1831 –1896)  English writer
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                                            from  Adventures of Isabel

                                                                                            by Odgen Nash

Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.

Cyril M Kornbluth, (July23,1923-Click here ) US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants)

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Manolis Chiotis, (1920-1970) Greek songwriter and musician -Click here and Click here composer, singer and Click here player

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Click here  (Click here/1944 –1974)  US actor

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Peter Stoner, (1888-1980) American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist

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Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 –1991) Click here inventor(Fender guitar)

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Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry W. V. Awdry, (June 15, 1911 -Click here) English children's writer

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Sites:

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History:

1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe

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1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

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Bonus Poem:

"ONE MORNING, OH! SO EARLY"

One morning, oh! so early, my beloved, my beloved,
All the birds were Click here blithely, as if never they would cease;
'Twas a thrush sang in my garden, "Hear the story, hear the story!"
And the lark sang, "Give us glory!"
And the dove said, "Give us peace!"

Then I hearkened, oh! so early, my beloved, my beloved,
To that murmur from the woodland of the dove, my dear, the dove;
When the nightingale came after, "Give us fame to sweeten duty!"
When the wren sang, "Give us Click here!"
She made answer, "Give us Click here!"

Sweet is spring, and sweet the morning, my beloved, my beloved;
Now for us doth spring, doth morning, wait upon the year's increase,
And my prayer goes up, "Oh, give us, crowned in youth with marriage glory,
Give for all our life's dear story,
Give us love, and give us peace!"

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Venue Impressions-

Last night at the Stone Church( Zion Hill Poetry Slam)

Had a last minute chance to get out for a while…drove thru UNH and was 4^th car in the parking lot...got a call from Lindsey saying she wasn’t going out…Had an Odouls and read one of the books I picked up in Laconia earlier. Essays, poems, art and stories from students of Lakes Region Tech. Open Mic was a fast affair, Matt Richards, Beau, Ryan,and Heidi were familiar faces. A pleasant surprise was my being seated with late arrivals Steve and Liz. The feature [Adam Stone],I think-from the Cantab- was articulate and coasted into his set first reading and then he dropped the pages and launched into some cool love poems.I left early due to it being past my bedtime.

Alittle whine?

Several people took extra time…Beau harassed late comers for not getting there early enough to sign up ,but then he wouldn’t shut down people who wouldn’t yield the mic… {JUST WRONG and RUDE!}

3^rd Weds.of the month…only their 2^nd show since reorganizing…food and beer and spirits ;an awesome sound & light man…Glad I went!

Skip Manning