June 19

Events:

EVENTS COMING-UP/updates and this’nthat

June 20 Rochester NH Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Jon Shutt. Reading from Dark Red Dawn- his new book inspired by  his  service in Iraq and Afghanistan begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

June 20,Concord, 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured reader Michael Cantor followed by open mic,  27 S. Main St., hosted by Don Kimball (Click here)

June 21 Portsmouth - 7-9pm - Press Room , 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth - Beat Night (431-5186)

June 21 Effingham - 7pm - Effingham Public Library, 30 Townhouse Road, - Writer's Night with features and open mic (539-1537 or Click here )

June 21 Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, Click here ,  Click here  )

June 21 Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts"        650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (Click here)

June 20 Rochester NH Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Jon Shutt. Reading from Dark Red Dawn- his new book inspired by  his  service in Iraq and Afghanistan begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

June  22 Goffstown  N.H. Apotheca Flower Shop Open Mic-  Music & Poetry 7-9 p.m

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Born:

June 19

Annibale Caro, (1507 - 1566) Italian poet

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Thomas Fuller (1608 – 08/16/1661) English writer

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Blaise Pascal (1623 – 08/19/1662) French mathematician & philosopher -perfected the first mechanical calculator for sale to the public. In the field of physics, he discovered that air has weight and proved that vacuums are possible in nature. In mathematics, he founded the theory of probabilities and developed an early form of integral calculus. He also invented the syringe and the hydraulic press.Entered the Abbey of Port-Royal in January 1655 produced two great works of religious philosophy: Provincial Letters (1657) and Thoughts (1658).

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Charles H. Spurgeon (1834 – 01/31/1892) English clergy

“The best books...

The best books of men are soon exhausted--
they are cisterns, and not springing fountains.
You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance,
and you think you could hear them a hundred times over-
but you could not- you soon find them wearisome.
Very speedily a man eats too much honey:
even children at length are cloyed with sweets.

All human books grow stale after a time-
but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases,
while the more you know of it the less you think you know.

The Book grows upon you: as you dive into its depths
you have a fuller perception of the infinity which remains
to be explored. You are still sighing to enjoy more of that
which it is your bliss to taste.

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Click hereElbert Hubbard (1856 – 05/07/1915) US writer

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Elisabeth Marbury (1856 – 01/22/1933) US literary and theatrical agent

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Click here (1861 – Click here/1928) Scottish military

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Johann Sigurjonsson, 1880 - Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)

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Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1884 -1974 French Dadaist artist and writer

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Moe Howard (1897 – 05/04/1975) US stooge

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Click here (1900-1986), US  novelist, Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Award for Best Picture

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 [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, "Iron Horse",1903 – 1941 1st baseman (NY Yankees)

"Line-Up for Yesterday"

G is for Gehrig,
The Pride of the Stadium;
His record pure gold,
His courage, pure radium.

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Tsushima Shuji Osamu Dazai  (1909-48) Japanese novelist and a master storyteller

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Lester Flatt 1914 - May 11, 1979  Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)

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Click here  (1918 – Click here/1989)  US attorney general (CA)

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Click herePauline Kael (1919 – 09/03/2001) US film critic

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Click here (1931-October 18, 1995) Scottish poet

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Shirley Ann Roque "Cha Cha" Muldowney, 1940 – US  drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)

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Click here (1942 – )  Libyan military, political leader

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Tobias Wolff, 1945 - US fiction writer and reporter

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Click hereClick here  (1945- )editor ,music journalist and cultural critic reviews for Rolling Stone magazine.

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Click here (1947) exiled Indian-English writer

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Click here  (1953 – )   US telegram

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Click here (1954 – )  US actor
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Kimberley Leston, 1959 –95 Eng/Amer journalist

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Garfield the Cat, 1978 animated character

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Sarah Kay (1988-)  American poet. Known for her Click here poetry, Kay is the founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E.,

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Passed:

Nathanael Greene, (1742-1786)  American Revolutionary general

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Richard Henry Lee,  - 1794   US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)

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Samuel Chase, Click here  US judge (signed Declar of Independence)

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George Lincoln Prescott, Click here US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries

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Henry Prince, 1892   Brigadier General (Union volunteers),

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John Dalberg Acton (01/10/1834 –1902) English historian

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Ramón López Velarde (June 15, 1888 –1921) Click here poet  (La Sangre Devota)

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Jerome K. Jerome (05/02/1859 –1927) English writer

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1860 –1937) Scottish writer (Peter Pan)

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The pirates “dreadful song:”

"Avast belay, yo ho,

heave to,

 A-pirating we go,

 And if we're parted by a shot

 We're sure to meet below!"

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Angelos Sikelianos (28 March 1884- 1951)  Click here lyric Click here and Click here.

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Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney Click hereClick here-1956 , German poet/writer

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Ethel Rosenberg, 1953 executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries

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Julius Rosenberg, 1953 NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1874 – 1956)  US businessman (IBM president)
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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1886 –1966)  US actor

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Lee Krasner Pollock, (October 27, 1908 - 1984) US Click here painter

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Len Bias November 18, 1963 -1986  Basketball rookie 1st pick of Celtics; OD’d

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I.F. Stone 1989 author

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Hy Gardner, 1989 US newspaper columnist

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Margherita Guidacci (April 25, 1921– 1992), Italian poet & translator

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William Golding (09/19/1911 –1993) English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983

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Bobby Helms,  Aug.15,1933-1997US Country and Pop singer Christmas classic Jingle Bell Rock, Click here

Milka Hartman (11 February 1902 - 1997), Slovenian poet.

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John Heyer, 1916- 2001 Australian documentary filmmaker
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Sites:

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History:

1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories

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1865-  Click here, also known as "Freedom Day" or "Emancipation Day." Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to spread the word that slavery had been abolished

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1940 - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

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1987 - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia

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Bonus Poem:

Summary

Half the girls in this train car wear gold earrings, large and oval, bisected
by their names in script. They are yours because you name them,
your Lekenya, your Mirellie, your Yesenia.


Excessively ornate, almost illegible, like your grandmother's cramped
handwriting in a Hallmark card with loopy golden cursive relaying
every detail of the rest home in Orlando


where her former pastor now resides— the year of establishment,
the founder's name, what the food is like, how once someone moves in,
they have no plans of ever moving again.


Tomorrow, you settle on a plan for breakfast, you settle on banana. You are
not hungry. It sits there on the desk still in peel, nervous for inevitable
disrobing. Stare at Banana. You sit there. It is afraid.

                                                  Matthew Pennock

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