October   12

Events:

October10-14,Concord,NH   NH Book Festival: Murder in New Hampshire This programming is shaping up to be absolutely don't-miss amazing! The Festival will run for four days. There will be book discussions, Literary Flash: Three Minutes of Fame at the Barley House, readings, poetry, author events and more. Stay tuned for details coming soon.   Click here

Oct 12 Brattleboro VT. Marlboro College-Brattleboro Literary Festival Writing Workshops The three intermediate/advanced level writing workshops fiction, poetry and memoir between 1:30 pm and 5:00 pm in the Marlboro College Graduate Center Building located at 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, VT.  The workshops will be facilitated by literary festival writers with a Vermont connection and will be limited to twelve participants each.  Because of the limited participation, submissions will be screened and admission to a workshop will be awarded on a first come first serve to qualified applicants.  The cost for participating will be $75.00 upon acceptance. Directions for payments .  Click here

.  All submissions must be done through the Submittable system at this site.  Teachers: April Bernard ,Jon Clinch , &  Deni Y. Béchard Click here

Born:

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Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. , (1710 – August 17, 1785) . Governor of Connecticut 1769-1784. During the American Revolution he was the only colonial governor who supported the American side. Washington declared him "the first of the patriots.”

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George Washington Cable (1844 – January 31, 1925) Click here Click here

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Click here  (1866 – Click here/1937)  English Prime Minister (39)

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Click here  (1872 – Click here/1958)  English  composer

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Aleister Edward Alexander  Crowley 1875–1 December 1947), English Click here, Click here, Click here, poet and Click here

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Click here 1896-Sept 12, 1981 Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1975 Ossi di sepia

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Click here  (1900 – Click here/1974)  US radio comic

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Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (1909 – December 29, 1996) Click here

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Click here ( 1910 – 16 January 1985) U S poet, critic and translator   Click here

James Phillip McAuley (1917 – 15 October 1976) Click here Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here critic

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Click hereClick here  (1920 – Click here/1994)  US  actress, playwright, and novelist

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Click here 1921- Jan 8,2010   Cartoonist Creator of Gumby

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Robin Skelton (1925 – 22 August 1997) Click here-born Click here, Click here, Click here, and Click here.

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Spell

Let in the clear,
let in the bright
that my love meet
her dream tonight.

Let in the smooth,
let in the warm
that sleep may keep
my love from harm.

Let in the moon,
let in the stars
to watch my love
through these still hours.

Let in the peace,
let in the peace
that all my love’s
long sadness cease.

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Thomas Burnett Swann (1928 - May 5, 1976) Click here Click here, Click here and Click here author.

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Magnus Magnusson (1929 – 7 Jan 2007) Click here Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here

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Click here  (1929-  ).  US author and psychologist Children of Crisis (1967), Pulitzer Prize - 1973.

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Click here  /1932 – )   US comedian and civil rights activist

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Click hereClick here  (1935 – Click here/2007)   Italian operatic tenor

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Click here 1937- Dec 10,2003     Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1979-2003

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Barclay Shaw (1949) American professional artist best known for his Click here and Click here artwork.

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Click here  1949- International terrorist

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Click here 1977-  skier Four-time world ski champion

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Passed:

Click here   384 B.C.  -322B.C. Attic author, orator and statesman

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 Click here 1644-1694 Poet Haiku  master

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Click hereClick hereClick here  (Click here/1807 –1870)  US general

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1826 –1887)  English writer Click herePoems (1859), Songs of Our Youth, and Thirty Years: Being Poems Old and New (1881).

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                                                  from A Flower of a Day

Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go: eash then clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach, out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,--
But we forget not, never can forget.
Flower, thou and I a moment face to face--
My face as clear as thine, this July noon
Shining on both, on bee and butterfly
And golden geetle creeping in the sun--
Will pause, and,lifting up, page after page,
The many-colored history of life,
Look backwards, backwards.

So, the volume close!
This July day, with the sun high in heaven,
And the whole earth rejoicing,--let it close.

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Cecil Frances Alexander 1818- 1895 Click here Click here wrote  nearly 400 hymns

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1853 –1921)  US senator (PA)

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Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 Dec1838 –1926) Click here Click here and Click here, Click here (1884).

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1883 –1946)  US military

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Pat Frank (May 5, 1907 –1964) Click here of Harry Hart Frank - Click here writer, Click here, and government consultant. Click here Click here.
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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1912 –1969)  Norwegian skater, actress

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1893 –1971)  US Secretary of State

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Click here ( Feb 11, 1935-1971 Musician Be-Bop-A-Lula

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1943 –1997)  US singer, songwriter
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Brian Morse 1948- 2007 Eng novelist & children’s poet

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History:

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1492, a sailor on board the Pinta sighted land, beginning a new era of European exploration and expansion.

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Bonus Poem:

Why East Wind Chills

Why east wind chills and south wind cools
Shall not be known till windwell dries
And west's no longer drowned
In winds that bring the fruit and rind
Of many a hundred falls;
Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
The child shall question all his days,
Why night-time rain and the breast's blood
Both quench his thirst he'll have a black reply.

When cometh Jack Frost? the children ask.
Shall they clasp a comet in their fists?
Not till, from high and low, their dust
Sprinkles in children's eyes a long-last sleep
And dusk is crowded with the children's ghosts,
Shall a white answer echo from the rooftops.

All things are known: the stars' advice
Calls some content to travel with the winds,
Though what the stars ask as they round
Time upon time the towers of the skies
Is heard but little till the stars go out.
I hear content, and 'Be Content'
Ring like a handbell through the corridors,
And 'Know no answer,' and I know
No answer to the children's cry
Of echo's answer and the man of frost
And ghostly comets over the raised fists.

                                                                         Dylan Thomas

A Note

Yesterday, I overlooked the birthday of an old favorite S-F writer Doris Piserchia.The lack of new material from her shouldn’t stop you from checking her out in the used paperback section of your local used book store-Skip M.

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