AUGUST 21 

Events:

Aug 21 Portsmouth writers at the Library from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm the Portsmouth Public Library invites you to the Writers Open Forum to share part of your draft manuscript in a supportive environment. The evening will begin with a short presentation by local writers Trisha Wooldridge, Rachel Kenley, and Elaine Isaak, on the benefits of writing associations and their experience with a variety of groups

Participants will then read their submissions to a small break-out group of peers and receive oral feedback within their group. We will conclude with time for networking and casual conversation. All genres and experience levels welcome. Participants should bring a submission of no more than five (5) pages, double spaced, of a non-published work-in-progress for assistance and critique.This event is free and open to the public. For more information or to RSVP, contact Terri Bruce at Click here. The library is located at 175 Parrott Avenue, next to the Portsmouth Middle School

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Aug 21 Laconia Streetcar is doing their free summer shows. It starts at 7 pm, at Pitman’s Freight Roon, on New Salem Street, across from Salvation Army. Click here

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Click here (1567- 28-Dec-1622)   Click here and a Click here in the Click here.

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Click here (1774-25-Jan-1833   )  Brit Rev War Military leader

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Click here (1872-16-Mar-1898)  Artist ;member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and also as the creator of erotic drawings.

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Miriam Allen deFord, 1888- 22 February 1975 US writer

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Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford 1896- November 13, Click here short story writer and novelist

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Click here (1904 – Click here/1984) US bandleader

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Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye (1908 - 29 January 2004) British writer. Click here (1978).

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Robert Lloyd Fish (21 August 1912 – 23 Feb 1981)  American writer of Click here.

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[I first read Robert L Fish in one of the Hitchcock horror series. Along with Ted Sturgeon, he shown. I am glad that his name is appearing on the web…years ago ,I googled his name and got nothing…Look him up!- Skip]

Click here (1926-19-Nov-1983  ) US songwriter "Witchcraft," "Young at Heart,"

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Click here (1929-) US poet textbook author, and writer of children's literature

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The Mouthless Moth

Who’d be a male
Cecropia moth?
Short-lived and frail,
He’s got no mouth.
One hour till he flies—
No time to sup
Before Death cries,
“Your number’s up!”

If I were in
That poor bug’s shoes
And had like him
No time to lose
Until—kaput,
I’d make one last
Request: a gut-
Busting repast:
Shrimp, T-bone rare,
Champagne and, yes,
An aperture
For its ingress.

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Click here  (/1930 – Click here/2002)  English royalty

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Wilton N. "Wilt" Chamberlain 1936-0ct 12,1999 US basket ball “unstoppable offensive force”

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Click here  (1937-  ). U S novelist ( Dog Soldiers)

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Click here (1938-  ) US  singer

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Click here 1944-  U S Singer and songwriter

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Click here John Graham Mellor (1952 – 22 December 2002), lyricist, Click hereand Click hereof the British Click here band Click hereToday is the birthday of the poet Click here (Click here), born in Kelso, Scotland, in 1869. He loved horses, and reading the work of poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon inspired him to travel to Australia when he was 20. He fell head over heels in love ... with the outback. He spent 12 years there, working as a drover and a horse-breaker, before returning to Scotland. He wrote several volumes of verse that were part romantic Scottish border ballad, part bush poetry. His best-known collection is Fair Girls and Gray Horses (1898). He also wrote a memoir, My Life in the Open (1908); in it, he writes that the Australian bush "has a peculiar witchery of its own ... that spell that brings the drover and traveller back again and again to worship at the shrine of its silent beauty; that charm that chains the true bushman to his love though half the world lies between." (Click here)

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On this day in 1945, physicist Click here became the first peacetime fatality of nuclear fission when he accidentally irradiated himself during an atomic energy experiment. Daghlian went to MIT at the age of 17; two years later, he transferred to Purdue University to study in their particle physics department. While he was in graduate school, he was recruited for the Manhattan Project experiments being conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico.He went to the lab about 9:30 at night to continue assembling and testing a neutron reflector, breaking safety regulations against conducting experiments alone and after hours. When a tungsten carbide brick fell from his hand onto the plutonium core, it started a nuclear reaction. He was taken immediately to the hospital, where he died of radiation sickness after almost 26 days of excruciating pain. He was 24 years old. (Click here)It's the birthday of poet Click here(Click here), born in Boston in 1960. She's the author of three poetry collections: Cities of Memory(1996), The White Fire of Time (2002), and Update on the Descent(2009). In a 2003 interview with Poetry Magazine, she said: "Contrary to a generally held view, poetry is a very powerful tool because poetry is the conscience of a society. [...] No individual poem can stop a war— that's what diplomacy is supposed to do. But poetry is an independent ambassador for conscience: It answers to no one, it crosses borders without a passport, and it speaks the truth. That's why ... it is one of the most powerful of the arts." (Click here)Click here 1960. US poet

Click hereToday is the birthday of poet Click here (1961) (Click here). She was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She's the author of several poetry collections, including Remembrance of Things Plastic (2010), Suggestions at Every Turn (2005), and Unknowne Land (2000). Her most recent book is The Perforated Map (2011). She lives in New York City. (Click here)

Click here (1961-) US/ Spanish poet (She was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris.

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Passed:

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Click here (1613-49), Eng poet

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William Cleland, 1671--Click here Scottish poet and soldier

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Click here (Click here/1689 –1762) English writer Letters

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American journalist & poet 1863- 1940

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Click here (Click here/1865 –1943) US educator, writer Essays on Modern Novelists

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Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884–1943) —Click here editor and author of works of Click here.

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Click here (July 24 ,1857 -1943 )Danish  author Lucky Peter

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A.braham Moses Klein (14 February 1909 –1972) Click here poet, journalist, novelist, Click here writer

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Dahlia Ravikovitch,( Nov.27,1936- 2005)  Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist.

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When the eyes open

Snow on the mountains
above the High Places
and above Jerusalem.
Come down O Jerusalem
and return my child to me.
Come O Bethlehem
and return my child to me.
Come high mountains
come winds
come floods in the harbors
and return my child to me.
And even you, O bent bulrush,
thin stalk in the stream,
stringy desert bushes,
return my child to me
as the soul returns to the body
when the eyes open.

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History:

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1912 Arthur R. Eldred of Oceanside, New York, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. He was the first person to earn the award.

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1920 Christopher Robin Milne was born, an only child to A. A. Milne.

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                                           1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago        

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Bonus Poem:

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Pup stares, turns to me,

in the early morning wet.

“Why did the leaf fall?”

                                          Skip, from Late Summer last year

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