September  30

EventsThisWeek:

October 1, Exeter: Banned Book Night, a celebration of Banned Book Week by Water Street Bookstore, will start with a discussion about the freedom to read and the First Amendment led by Claire Ebel, executive director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union. Exeter citizens will read from their favorite banned and challenged books. Let Water Street know if you would like to participate by emailing Click here (603-778-9731; Click here).

October 2, Moultonborough: Robert Straw ,musician, is featured, followed by an open mike, at the Moultonborough Public Library, 7:30 p.m. (library 476-8895, orPriscilla Burlingham, 476-2630)

Oct 2 Portland  Port VERITAS  Open Mic featuring Click here At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant  375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101   All Ages – $2 Cover   7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30       FMI please visit our site Click here
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October 3, Portsmouth: Portsmouth Poetry Hoot – Grace Mattern & David Coursin are featured, followed by open mike, at Café Espresso, 7:00 p.m. ( Click here

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October 4, Rochester Writers Night featuring Barbara Bald . Our feature begins at 6:15After the feature performance we will take a short break and then return for the open mic portion of our program..Sign-up at 6 PM We end just before 8PM Portable Pantry 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357, (Click here)

October 4, Manchester – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here )

October 5, Exeter: Coffeehouse at First Unitarian-Universalist Society. Features at 7:00 p.m., open mike at 8:15. Suggested donation, $3-5. (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or Click here

October 6, Franconia:  Frost Place Reading Series: Hyla Brook poets are featured at the Henry Holt Barn, 5 p.m. All readings are free and open to the public. (Click here ).

Born:

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Click here (1207– Click here/1273) Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet

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Click here (1905– Click here/1990) US director

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Click here, Click here(1906-1994), Scottish mystery writer

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Click here   (1913-Jan 30,   98   )Mathematician Category theory

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Click here ( 1917-April 2, 1987) Legendary drummer

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Click here 1920- Sept 8,1995 Author Lust, Caution

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Click here (1924-Click here/1984) US writer of short stories and novels In Cold Blood

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W. S. Merwin (1927- ) US Poet The Carrier of Ladders

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Click here (1928 – ) Roumanian-US Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist /writer Nobel’86

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Piri Thomas, 1928-Oct 17, 2011, Puerto Rican-American author and poet   1967 Down These Mean Streets,

The Eyes Of My Heart

What is the fermenting passion that spreads out,
Like ink on linen laundered just but once
And becomes as close as the hairs on your body?
What is the seeming sense that keeps beating a sad-assed message of futility?
And you're able to walk and smile,
And help and love and give warmth and beauty,
And even wipe away the tears that are not from the eyes,

                                 but from the soul.

And you ask yourself, "Hola, Piri,
Is this a burden you have?"
Piri answers, "Nunca, it is the blessing of beauty,

of creativeness, I Puertorriqueño."

One of the most beautiful things that I experience
Is when I awake every morning, I stand agog--
It's a pretty world, rain, shine, winter, fog.
It's a pretty world. All it needs is that we,
Pretty world, be as pretty as thee.

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 Click here (  1933-   )  Gospel/soul singer,

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Johnny Mathis ( 1935- .)  African-American singer.

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Click here ( 1942-Feb 28, 1968 )Singer /Songwriter Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

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Click here (1946-Dec 17,  2009 )Film director  Alien, Total Recall

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Click here (1947- Sept 16, 1977 Singr Songwriter for T-Rex

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Click here 1953-  Country Musician Baby I Lied

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Click here   1956-   Film Dir Glitter

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Click here 1964- Lead singer and guitarist for Phish

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Passed:

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Click here (Click here/0347 -0420) Italian religious person , translator of the Vulgate Bible

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Click here 1st Baron Brooke(Click here/1554 –1628) English writer Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney

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SONNET XXIII

Merlin, they say, an English Prophet borne,
When he was yong and gouern'd by his Mother,
Took great delight to laugh such fooles to scorne,
As thought, by Nature we might know a Brother.

His Mother chid him oft, till on a day,
They stood, and saw a Coarse to buriall carried,
The Father teares his beard, doth weepe and pray;
The Mother was the woman he had married.

Merlin laughs out aloud in stead of crying;
His Mother chides him for that childish fashion;
Sayes, Men must mourne the dead, themselues are dying,
Good manners doth make answer vnto passion.

The Child (for children see what should be hidden)
Replies vnto his Mother by and by,
"Mother, if you did know, and were forbidden,
Yet you would laugh as heartily, as I.

This Man no part hath in the child he sorrowes,
His Father was the Monke that sings before him:
See then how Nature of Adoption borrowes,
Truth couets in me, that I should restore him.
True fathers singing, supposed fathers crying,
I thinke make women laugh, that lye a-dying."

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Click here (1592-1669) English poet and bishop.

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Click here(13 April 1729-1811) Eng Scholar poet Percy Reliques

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Click here ( jan ,1815-64)Author  Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi

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Toohoolhoolzote, Chief Click here ( 1840- Click here ), prophet of Nez Perce Indians,

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Click here  ( March 15 1868    -1913) Inventor of the diesel engine

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Click here (Click here/1931 – 1955) US actor

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Click here   ( July 7,1924-77 Singer Les Paul & Mary Ford
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Edgar Bergen (Click here/1903 –1978) US comic, actor Radio's greatest ventriloquist
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Click here (Click here/1891 –1986) English writer
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Click here (Click here/1913–1987) USsci-fi author The Stars My Destination

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Click here (Click here/1912–1990) Australian writer (Nobel 1973) Riders in the Chariot

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Click here ( Sept 24,1912 -1998) Novelist The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

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Click here   ( May 2,1941- -2010 TV/Film Producer;Novelist The Rockford Files

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History:

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1847, Congressman George Perkins Marsh delivered a speech that gave voice to ideas that would become a catalytic force in the movement to conserve America’s natural resources.

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1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years.

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Bonus Poem:

Ode

Sad in bed you read Horace the ode in which an aging lover pleads not to be inflamed again by a perishable love

and a tear escapes his eye
and a tear escaped your eye.
I was wild for you and heedless
I am glad love to say this

I was afflicted and afflicted you.
Be careful what you wish for
you warned. I was not careful
nor in the end thank god were you.

The charms I recited
the songs I sang
were lit by a light
almost completely impersonal.

Yet what are we but vehicles
of waves we never directly perceive
except those days the light bending
around our bodies becomes our body
—the lovers ablaze on the pyre

Maureen N. McLane

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