June 24

Events:

June 24 - 27 Franconia,NH,at 7:30 pm: Poetry readings in the Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place.

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June 24 (Portland-ME.) and Mon June 25 (Portsmouth-South Church) AMBUSHED BY POETRY: Portland and Portsmouth: Passion and Pride Featuring Timothy Liu (on the faculty of William Patterson Click here Click here), editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000), Bruce Spang, 3rd Portland (ME) Poet Laureate, John-Michael Albert, 8th Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate, and guest readers i

June 25 (Portsmouth-South Church)
AMBUSHED BY POETRY: Portland and Portsmouth: Passion and Pride Featuring Timothy Liu (on the faculty of William Patterson Click here Click here), editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000), Bruce Spang, 3rd Portland (ME) Poet Laureate, John-Michael Albert, 8th Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate,

Born:

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Click here 1519- 13-Oct-1605 Reformation leader, Calvin's successor

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Click here (1542-1591), aka San Juan de la Cruz, born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, Spanish poet and Carmelite priest, famous for three mystical poems, including La Noche oscura del alma (published 1618; transl. as Dark Night of the Soul)

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Click here (1813 – Click here/1887) American Congregationalist preacher/ writer

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Click here (1831 – Click here/1910) US writer

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Click here 1881- 19th September 1949,  Irish playwright  The New Gossoon (1930), The Passing Day (1936), and The Rugged Path (1940).

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Gustavus Swift 1839- 29 Mar 1903. American manufacturer and inventor

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Click here  (06/24/1842 – ?/1914)  US writer- journalist, short story writer,Devil’s Dictiomary author

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Click here 1848-Feb.13,1927 Historian The Law of Civilization and Decay

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Click here  1891-July 13,1954 Film Director Destination Moon

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Click here1893-Dec.20,1971  businessman Disneyland

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Click here (1895 – Click here/1983) US boxer

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Click here  1899-June 18,1987 Novelist, The White Rabbit

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Click here  1900-Jan.24,1972  Vaudeviller crooner and songwriter"My Blue Heaven,"

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Harry Partch  (1901-3-Sep-1974     ). avant-garde / Hobo composer, built Click here: his 72-string kithara; his boos (marimba-like reeds); his cloud-chamber bowls; and his blowboys, made of bellows, organ pipes and an auto exhaust.

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Click here, 1911-30-Apr-2011 Argentinian physics professor, novelist, and winner of the 1984 Cervantes Prize; Angel of Darkness

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Click here (1912 – Click here/1990) US writer journalist (The Saturday Review), essayist (Who Speaks for Man?) ,world peace advocateand promoter of holistic healing

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Click here (1915 – Click here/2001) English astronomer, mathematician, proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe; coining the term "Big Bang" in the last of those talks.

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Click here (1916 – Click here/1986) US writer translator (Dante's Inferno) and etymologist (A Browser's Dictionary, A Second Browser's Dictionary and Good Words to You), 1916. poet, critic, and translator

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Here, time concurring (and it does);
Lies Ciardi. If no kingdom come,
A kingdom was. Such as it was
This one beside it is a slum.

                                       -J Ciardi    

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Click here 1923- French poet, essayist, translator, and art historian Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve

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Summer Again

I walk on in the snow. I’ve closed
My eyes, but the light knows how to breach
My porous lids. And I perceive
That in my words it’s still the snow
That eddies, thickens, shears apart.

Snow,
Letter we find again and unfold:
And the ink has paled and the bleached-out marks
Betray an awkwardness of mind
Which makes their lucid shadows just a muddle.

And we try to read, we can’t retrieve from memory
Who’s taking such an interest in ourselves—unless
It’s summer again; unless we see the leaves
Behind the snowflakes, and the heat
Rising from the absent ground like mist.

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Click here  1923  Stand up comic/Actor

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David McTaggart 1932-2001 cofounded Greenpeace

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Click here 1933- Boston Celtic, Hall of Famer

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Robert Downey, Sr 1936- Film Director Greaser's Palace

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Click here (1937-)  Bengali-German novelist Cry, the Peacock

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Charles Nikki Brown (1937 – July 12, 2009)    co-founder and editor of Click here, the long-running news and reviews magazine covering the genres of Click here and Click here literature

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Lawrence Block 1938-

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Click here (1939- ) US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner

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Click here 1941-1-Aug-1966 Texas University Tower sharpshooter- a total of 49 victims including himself

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Click here 1941- Psychoanalyst, linguistic philosopher

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Mick Fleetwood, 1942- . British rocker(Fleetwood Mac)

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Click here 1944-  Brit. Musician The God of Hellfire

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Jeff Beck, 1944- British rocker (The Honeydrippers, Jeff Beck Group and The Yardbirds)

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Click here 1945-  American politician who was the Click here Governor of New York, 1995-2006

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Click here (1946 – ) US writer, politician

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Click here 1951-  Film Director FairyTale: A True Story

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Click here 1966 Singer/Songwriter Mazzy Star

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Click here 1953  Activist who Waged war against "under God"

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Click here  1961-    Activist  /Former head of the Christian Coalition

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Passed:

June 24

Click here   15-Dec-37 – 79 AD  Roman Emperor, 69-79 AD

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Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (April 12, 1550 -1604) poet

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Click here  Dec /1/1580-1637 Astronomer  Discovered Orion Nebula

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Edward Taylor (1642-1729) New England Puritan minister

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Adam Lindsay Gordon (10/19/1833 -1870) Brit /Click here Click here, Click here and Click here.

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            from Rippling Water

Brian is headstrong, rash, and vain
(The rippling water murmurs still),
Stephen is somewhat duller of brain,
Slower of speech and milder of will ;
Stephen must toil a living to gain,
Plough and harrow and gather the grain ;
Brian has little enough to maintain
The station in life which he needs must fill ;
Both are fearless and kind and frank,
But we can't win all gifts under the sun—
What have I won save riches and rank ?
(The rippling water murmurs on.)

Riches and rank, and what beside
(The rippling water murmurs yet),
The mansion is stately, the manor is wide,
Their lord for a while may pamper and pet ;
Liveried lackeys may jeer aside,
Though the peasant girl is their master's bride,
At her shyness, mingled with with awkward pride,—
'Twere folly for trifles like these to fret ;
But the love of one that I cannot love,
Will it last when the gloss of his toy is gone ?
Is there naught beyond, below, or above ?
(The rippling water murmurs on.)

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Click here (Click here/1837 -1908) US President (22, 24)

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Click here  9-Apr-1883- 1969 Cartoonist Gasoline Alley

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Click here (Click here/1894 -1969) US writer- Ultraconservative newspaper columnist

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Willy Ley (October 2, 1906 - 1969) Click here science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Click here and the Click here.

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Click here  4-Aug-1889-1984 Film Director The Man Who Came to Dinner

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Rex Warner (9 March ,1905- 1986) English poet, novelist, translator, and scholar of classical literature The Aerodrome (1941) Poems and Contradictions (1945)

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Click here  21-Aug-1917-2008 Economist Mechanism design theory

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History:

June 24

Click here		Vikings destroy Nantes

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Click here		"Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

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Click here Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat   Click here
Click here 4-1, Mark McGwire** hits a 538 foot home run Click here

Bonus Poem:
Exchanging Hats

Unfunny uncles who insist
in trying on a lady's hat,
--oh, even if the joke falls flat,
we share your slight transvestite twist

in spite of our embarrassment.
Costume and custom are complex.
The headgear of the other sex
inspires us to experiment.

Anandrous aunts, who, at the beach
with paper plates upon your laps,
keep putting on the yachtsmen's caps
with exhibitionistic screech,

the visors hanging o'er the ear
so that the golden anchors drag,
--the tides of fashion never lag.
Such caps may not be worn next year.

Or you who don the paper plate
itself, and put some grapes upon it,
or sport the Indian's feather bonnet,
--perversities may aggravate

the natural madness of the hatter.
And if the opera hats collapse
and crowns grow draughty, then, perhaps,
he thinks what might a miter matter?

Unfunny uncle, you who wore a
hat too big, or one too many,
tell us, can't you, are there any
stars inside your black fedora?

Aunt exemplary and slim,
with avernal eyes, we wonder
what slow changes they see under
their vast, shady, turned-down brim.

   by Elizabeth Bishop