September  19

Events:

9/19/2012		7PM		Gibsons Books, 27 S. Main St., Concord, NH		PSNH reading with Kyle Potvin & Bob Crawford plus an open mic mail  to: Click here

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Hartley Coleridge, (1796 - 1849) English poet

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Prayer

There is an awful quiet in the air,

And the sad earth, with moist imploring eye,

Looks wide and wakeful at the pondering sky,

Like Patience slow subsiding to Despair.

But see, the blue smoke as a voiceless prayer,

Sole witness of a secret sacrifice,

Unfolds its tardy wreaths, and multiplies

Its soft chameleon breathings in the rare

Capacious ether,--so it fades away,

And nought is seen beneath the pendent blue,

The undistinguishable waste of day.

So have I dreamed!--oh may the dream be true!--

That praying souls are purged from mortal hue,

And grow as pure as He to whom they pray.

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Sojourner Truth 1797-1883. Black abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

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Lajos Louis Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva ( 1802 – March 20, 1894) Click here lawyer, journalist, politician and Regent-President of Click here in 1849. -Click here and bellwether of democracy in Click here.

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Ferry Porsche, (Click here - 1998) Austrian automobile pioneer

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Click here 1911-Click here/1993) English novelist, Nobel Prize Literature 1983 Lord of the Flies,

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Damon[Francis] Knight, 1922 -2002 US, sci-fi author

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Mike Royko, 1932 - Click here/1997) US journalist and columnist

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Click here (1933-    ) Actor The Man From U.N.C.L.E.;NCIS

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Click here (1940 – ) US songwriter From Out In The Country, Just an Old Fashioned Love Song

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Click here 1940- singer/ songwriter The Righteous Brothers

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Click here  (09/19/1943 – Click here/1974)  US singer (Mamas and Papas)

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Click hereClick here  (09/19/1948 – )  English actor

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Click here  (09/19/1949 – ) English Waifish 60s fashion model

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Passed:

0919

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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, (1857-1935 ) Russian rocket scientist

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Click here (June 17, 1910-1968 ) Country crooner, wrote Old Shep

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Gram Parsons (Nov, 1946 –1973) American singer, songwriter, Click hereand Click here/ . Flying Burrito Brothers Hickory Wind

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    from Brass Buttons

my mind was young until she grew
my secret thoughts known only by the few
it was a dream much to real
to be leaned against too long
all the time I think she knew
her words still dance inside my head
her comb still lies beside my bed
and the sun comes up without her
it just doesn't know she's gone
ooh, but I remember everything she said
brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes
warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues
and the tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair
brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes

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History:

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 1777, Revolutionary War continental soldiers fighting under American General Horatio Gates defeated the British at Saratoga, New York

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Bonus Poem:

The Fair

The pick o' seven counties, so they're tellin' me, was there,
Horses racin' on the track, and fiddles on the green,
Flyin' flags and blowin' horns and all that makes a fair,
I'm hearin' that the like of it was something never seen.

So it is they're tellin' me,
Girl dear, it may be true--
I only know the bonnet strings
Beneath your chin were blue.

I'm hearin' that the cattle came that thick they stood in rows,
And Doolan's Timmy caught the pig and Terry climbed the pole,
They're tellin' me they showed the cream of everything that grows,
And never man had eyes enough for takin' in the whole.

So it is they're tellin' me,
Girl dear, it may be so,
I only know your little gown
Was whiter than the snow.

They're tellin' me the gentry came from twenty miles about,
And him that came from Ballinsloe sang limpin' Jamesey down,
And 'twas Himself, no less, stood by to give the prizes out,
They're tellin' me you'd hear the noise from here to Dublin town.

So it is they're tellin' me,
Girl dear, the same may be,
I only know that comin' home
You gave your word to me.

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This Just In:

-Conway Public Library-

The Open Mic Series (which, last year had been reduced to a Quarterly schedule from a monthly schedule) has been CANCELLED due to a restructuring in the staff. The fine quality of the features had filled the room many times; Everyone who attended or featured there loved the room, the show, and the hostess. .The selection of musicians and poets was a spectacle l that I will never forget.  Host, Olga Merrill has announced her intention to retire. Her email until the end of the month is;: Click here

NOTE! Editors Opinion

She will, no doubt, enjoy any best wishes and memories you wish to share./  Conway Public Library  15 E. Main St. • P.O. Box 2100  Conway, NH 03818-2100
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