September 8

Events:

September 6 to 9, 2012 Star Island Isle of Shoals, NH   2012 Writers in the Round Retreat on Star Island  FYI General Registration ends Aug. 15…a multi-day creative retreat for songwriters and poets in a beautiful natural setting. The retreat is a time for creative growth in a safe environment, fostered by instructors who are experts in their art, be it songwriting, poetry, or spoken word, and who are whole-souled in their approach to life.

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Sept 8 Newfields ,N.H. at 3:PM Musician Martin England at the Newfields Coffeehouse

Donations gratefully accepted and children are free and encouraged to attend!
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71 Main Street, Newfields, New Hampshire 03856

Sept 8, Meredith Charlotte Cox will be reading from and signing her late husband's new book, Close Encounters with the Common Loon  Innisfree Bookshop, from   4:00 to 6:00

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Born:

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Luovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533      Orlando Furioso

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Frederic Mistral 1830 –March 25,1914)   Provençal poet and ethnographer Nobel 1904   Mirèio

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Joaquin Cincinnatus Heine  Miller (1837 – Click here/1913) US poet   The Voice Of The Dove

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MOUNT SHASTA.

To lord all Godland! lift the brow

Familiar to the moon, to top

The universal world, to prop

The hollow heavens up, to vow

Stern constancy with stars, to keep

Eternal watch while eons sleep;

To tower proudly up and touch

God's purple garment-hems that sweep

The cold blue north! Oh, this were much!

Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt

I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,

And loved thy vast face, white as truth;

I stood where thunderbolts were wont

To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,

And heard dark mountains rock and roll

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I saw the lightning's gleaming rod

Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll

The awful autograph of God!

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Click here (1863-Sept 1,1943) Brit writer

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Click hereClick here (1873 – Click here/1907) French "pataphysical" writer Ubu roi

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Click here (/1896 – Click here/1983) US actor MGM songwriter, publicity chief, lyricist and librettist

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Jimmie Rodgers,   [1897 - May 26, 1933]Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman

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Click hereClick here (1922 – ) US comic, actor Your Show of Shows

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Click hereClick here (/1924 – Click here/1964) US writer (Peyton Place)
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Click hereClick here (1925 – Click here/1980) English actor

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Click here 1932-march 5 1953  I Fall To Pieces

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Click here, 1947. US  author of novels and short stories Chilly Scenes of Winter

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Click hereClick here (1971 – ) US actor

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Passed:

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Click here  (1592 – 09/08/1644)  English writer

A Good Night

Close now thine eyes and rest secure;
Thy soul is safe enough, thy body sure;
He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
The smiling conscience in a sleeping breast
Has only peace, has only rest;
The music and the mirth of kings
Are all but very discords, when she sings;
Then close thine eyes and rest secure;
No sleep so sweet as thine, no rest so sure.

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Click here (Click here/1574 –/1656)  English bishop Virgidemiarum

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Click here (Click here/1864 –1949) German composer

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Alexandra David-Neel   ( Oct 24,1868  - 1969.) explorer-writer, My Journey to Lhasa (#55 of National Geographic’s 100 Greatest Adventure Books).

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Sites:

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History:

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1900 - Galveston, Click here, was hit by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.

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1952 Click here came out with his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

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Bonus Poem:

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                                                           The Name

I know not by what name to call thee, thou
Who reignest supreme, sole sovereign of my heart!
Thou who the lode-star of my being art,
Thou before whom my soul delights to bow!
What shall I call thee? Teach me some dear name
Better than all the rest, that I may pour
All that the years have taught me of love's lore
In one fond word. "Lover?" But that's too tame,
And "Friend" 's too cold, though thou art both to me.
Art thou my King? Kings sit enthroned afar,
And crowns less meet for love than reverence are,
While both my heart gives joyfully to thee.
Art thou---but, ah! I'll cease the idle quest:
I cannot tell what name befits thee best!

                                               -Julia C. R. Dorr

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Closer:

Haiku –  ‘ooo’

Across the river,

In a sullen, wooded,  dawn

Was that “Woooo” or Hoooo”  ?

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