October  8

Events:

October 8, Littleton: Helen Chantal-Pike is a freelance writer whose work has been published in the New York Times, among others, and she will be teaching a five-week memoir writing class, Capture Your Family's Stories Before They are Lost. Maximum of five particpants. Class is $60 per person. Register by calling the store at (603) 444-5263. At 4:45 p.m., Village Book Store (Click here).

Alittlenotice;

Nov 2 Rochester Writers Night  Author & poet Bruce Valley ( who featured last month at

John Simons venue in Rye The Serenity Café) ; 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. Participants have a 5 minute limit, with extra rounds if there is time..Please come early for some of the Pantry's remarkable food, bring your original poetry, prose, or music to read, or just relax and listen to our talented feature performer and enjoy a great night.Sign-up at 6 PM We end just before 8PM Portable Pantry 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH.

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Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833- January 18, 1908 Click here Click here Click here Click here poet,

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Click here, (1838-July 1, 1905) ) US  statesman and writer  Lincoln's / one of the president's two private secretaries. editorials for the New York Tribune, and gained a national reputation as a poet with the book Pike County Ballads. ambassador to Great Britain, and Secretary of State during the Spanish American War.

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Click here, (1869). inventor . He and his brother, Charles, invented the first automobile to be actually built and operated in the United States.

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Click here  (1872-June 17,1963)  . British novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher, and orator Wolf Solent

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Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883,– August 1, 1970,), Click here physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading biochemists

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Click hereClick here  (1890 – Click here/1973)  US aviator

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Marina IvanovaTsvetaeva 1892- August 31, 1941.Russian Ex-pat poet,playwright
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Rouben (Zachary) Mamoulian (1898-1987) Russian-born film and stage director, , directed on Broadway, and then in Hollywood. For his first film, Applause, in 1929, he introduced two technical advances: he put the camera -- which up until then had been virtually stationary -- on wheels for dolly shots; and he recorded the sound on two channels for later mixing. ; directed the original stage productions of Oklahoma! and Carousel.

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Meyer Levin, (1905-July 9,1981). writer Compulsion, The Settlers and The Harvest

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Jarno Elisar Pennanen 1906- 1969 Finnish writer, translator, and journalist,

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Click hereClick here  (/1912 – Click here/2002)  US writer, political theorist Founder of Common Cause
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Click hereClick here  (10/08/1920 – Click here/1986) US writer Dune

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Hope

Old spirit, in and beyond  me,
keep and extend me. Amid strangers
friends, great trees and big seas breaking,
let love move me. Let me hear the whole music,
see clear, reach deep. Open me to find due words,
that I may shape them to ploughshares of my own making.
After such luck, however late, give me to give to
the oldest dance.... Then to good sleep,
and - if it happens - glad waking.

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Click hereClick here (10/08/1926 – Click here/1991) German actor
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Click hereClick here (10/08/1927 – Click here/1956) US missionary
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Click here  (1939-July 12,2010). comic book writer and essayist  He is the creator of the American Splendor, the first-ever autobiographical comic book series, which was eventually made into a movie starring Paul Giamatti.

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Click hereClick here (/1941 – )  US religious leader, perennial presidential candidate

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 R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (1943 American writer.

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Click here   (Click here/1707 –/1754)  English writer

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Click here  (Click here/1737 –/1793)  US founding father

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1804 - 1869)  US President (14)
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Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 –, 1914) American poet

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Click here  (Click here/1892 –1944) US Presidential candidate Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940

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Click here  (Click here/1895 –1953)  English actor Watson

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Click here  ( Oct 10, 1870-1953 ) Russian short story writer, Light Breathing

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Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 –1967), British poet, translator and painter.  

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Waterfalls

Always in that valley in Wales I hear the noise

Of waters falling.

There is a clump of trees

We climbed for nuts; and high in the trees the boys

Lost in the rookery's cries

Would cross, and branches cracking under their knees

Would break, and make in the winter wood new gaps.

The leafmould covering the ground was almost black,

But speckled and striped were the nuts we threw in our caps,

Milked from split shells and cups,

Secret as chestnuts when they are tipped from a sack,

Glossy and new.

Always in that valley in Wales

I hear that sound, those voices. They keep fresh

What ripens, falls, drops into darkness, fails,

Gone when dawn shines on scales,

And glides from village memory, slips through the mesh,

And is not, when we come again.

I look:

Voices are under the bridge, and that voice calls,

Now late, and answers,

then, as the light twigs break

Back, there is only the brook

Reminding the stones where, under a breath, it falls.

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History:

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1871, , Click here -- supposedly when a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary kicked over a lantern while being milked, setting the straw on fire.

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1931 Click here's The Waves was published.

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Bonus Poem:

Jewels in my hand

I hold dead friends like jewels in my hand
Watching their brilliance gleam against my palm
Turquoise and emerald, jade, a golden band

All ravages of time they can withstand
Like talismans their grace keeps me from harm
I hold dead friends like jewels in my hand

I see them standing in some borderland
Their heads half-turned, waiting for my arm
Turquoise and emerald, jade, a golden band

I'm not afraid they will misunderstand
My turning to them like a magic charm
I hold dead friends like jewels in my hand
Turquoise and emerald, jade, a golden band

                                                                                                             ~ by Sasha Moorsom

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