AUGUST 27

Events:

August 27 Rochester;  4pm  BookBumz Open mic spoken word  8 Wallace St  rescheduled from 081012     Click here            On Facebook:    bookbumz java.

Of Interest:

September 6, Concord: Tom Ryan, author of Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, will discuss his journey. At 7 p.m., Gibson's Bookstore (603-224-0562; Click here).

Born:

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BIRTHDAYS:

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Confucius (551-479 BC) aka K'ung-fu-tzu, Chinese philosopher and writer who wrote the Analects

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Click here (1770 – Click here/1831) German philosopher

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Hannibal Hamlin, Click here -(R) 15th VP (1861-65) Lincoln's first Vice President

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Manuel Acuna,Click here 6 December 1873 - Mexican poet (Nocturno)

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Click here (1865-  April 23,1951) US Vice President, 1925-29

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Click here (1870- May 24,1919) Mexican Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna

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"At Peace" (Creator of himself, of his destiny.)

 Very near my sunset, I bless you, Life

because you never gave me neither unfilled hope

nor unfair work, nor undeserved sorrow.

Because I see at the end of my rough way

that I was the architect of my own destiny

and if I extracted the sweetness or the bitterness of things

it was because I put the sweetness or the bitterness in them

when I planted rose bushes

I always harvested roses

Certainly, winter is going to follow my youth

 But you didn’t tell me that May

 was eternal I found without a doubt long my nights of pain

 But you didn’t promise me only good nights

And in exchange I had some peaceful ones I loved,

I was loved, the sun caressed my face

Life, you owe me nothing, Life, we are at peace!

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Click here (1871- Click here/1945American novelist and newspaper writer

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Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 - 12 July 1910) Brit  motoring and aviation pioneer

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Click here (1877-Feb 13,1951) American writer who published popular novels about religious and moral issues.

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Click here (1882 – Click here/1974) US film producer

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Click here (1889 – Click here/1951) US writer/   Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary

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Click here Emmanuel Radnitzky   (1890 – Click here/1976) US artist, photographer

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C. Cecil Louis Troughton SmithS. Forester (1899- April 2,1966) British historical novelist, biographer, and journalist, Horatio Hornblower creator The African Queen

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Click here (/1908 – Click here/1973) US President (36), Vice President (37)

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Click here  (1909-  March 15,1959) Jazz tenor saxophoneist

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Click here 1910 – Click here/1997) Macedonian religious leader

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Click here   (1926-   )   Musician Supersax

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Click here (1959 – ) English writer

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Passed:

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Click here (1566-1638) Eng Teacher, Lawyer, Click hereof Click here, and politician.

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Click here (Click here/1700 –/1748) Scottish writer

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Click here (Click here/1795 –1879) English clergyman, writer, postmaster

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Click here (Click here/1862 –1948) US Secretary of State,

Supreme Court justice

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Click here (Click here/1908 –1950) Italian writer

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Click here (Click here/1868 –1963) US sociologist

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My Country Tis Of Thee,

My country tis of thee,
Late land of slavery,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my father’s pride
Slept where my mother died,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring!

My native country thee
Land of the slave set free, Thy fame
 I love.
I love thy rocks and rills
And o’er thy hate which Click herechills,
My heart with purpose thrills,
To rise above.

Let laments swell the breeze
And wring from all the trees
Sweet freedom’s song.
Let laggard tongues awake,
Let all who hear partake,
Let Southern silence quake,
The sound prolong.

Our fathers’ God to thee
Author of Liberty,
To thee we sing
Soon may our land be bright,
With Freedom’s happy light
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King.

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Click here (Click here/1902 –1964) US comic, actor

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Click here (Click here/1884 –1969) English writer

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Click here (Click here/1911 –1980) US writer

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Click here (Click here/1954 –1990) US musician

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Sites:

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History:

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1841, Click here's The Deerslayer was published

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1912 Tarzan first appeared, in a story by a Chicago advertising writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs--the saga of an English nobleman's son abandoned in the African jungle and brought up by apes.

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Bonus Poem:

from thirsty

This city is beauty

unbreakable and amorous as eyelids,

in the streets, pressed with fierce departures,

submerged landings,

I am innocent as thresholds

and smashed night birds, lovesick,

as empty elevators



let me declare doorways,

corners, pursuit, let me say

standing here in eyelashes, in

invisible breasts, in the shrinking lake

in the tiny shops of untrue recollections,

the brittle, gnawed life we live,

I am held, and held



why, the touch of everything blushes me,

pigeons and wrecked boys,

half dead hours, blind musicians,

inconclusive women in bruised dresses

even the habitual gray-suited men with terrible

briefcases, how come, how come

I anticipate nothing as intimate as history

                              -Dionne Brand


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