December   3

Events:

Dec 3 Cambridge, Mass.The Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Jean Valentine and Ilya Kaminksy read from Dark Elderberry Branch, a collection of translations of Marina Tsvetaeva.
This reading is part of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. For the complete series schedule, visit Click here.
Sec. 08: 1 Monday, 8:00-9:30 pm. Dec. 3, 56 Brattle St. | $3
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Samuel Crompton 1753 –26 June 1827) English Click here and pioneer of the spinning industry mule-jenny spinning machine)

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Gilbert Charles Stewart Stuart, 1755 July 9, 1828) US, portrait painter

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Mary Lamb 1763- 20 May 1847), Eng writer/ co-author with her bro,Charles

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On the Same Picture being Removed to make Place for a Portrait of a Lady by Titian.

Who art thou, fair one, who usurp'st the place
Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace?
Come, fair and pretty, tell to me,
Who, in thy life-time, thou might'st be.
Thou pretty art and fair,
But with the lady Blanch thou never must compare.
No need for Blanch her history to tell;
Whoever saw her face, they there did read it well.
But when I look on thee, I only know
There lived a pretty maid some hundred years ago.

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Click here 1766– Click here/1823) English writer

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Click here (1795 - Click here/1879) English clergyman, writer, postmaster- introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)

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France Preseren , 1800-8th February 1849 Slovenian poet  Sonnet

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Click here (1803-1875), Victorian poet and vicar

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George Brinton McClellan 1826 -1885 Major General (Union Army),

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Cleveland Abbe 1838 –Oct 28,1916 US, meteorologist (Father of the Weather Bureau)

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Click here, (1838- ). British social reformer and philanthropist she co-founded Britain's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty in 1895.

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Click here (1842– Click here/1911) US chemist and home economist  first woman admitted to MIT (American Home Economics Association-1st president) the "mother of home economics.” a pioneer in the field of nutrition, applying scientific principles to daily living
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Click here (1857– Click here/1924)[ Korzeniowski, Teodor Josef Konrad] Polish-Ukrainian writer

The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness and Nostromo.

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Click here (1858-7 February,1920 ) Eng. Victorian poet

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Click here (1863– Click here/1935) British- US writer, artist and Click hereCupid's Encyclopedia

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Click here 1883- Sept 15,1945 Atonal composer

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Click here (1895– Click here/1982) German/Austrian/English psychoanalytist

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Kate O'Brien 1897- 13 August 1974), Irish writer- novelist and playwright The Land of Spices

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Click here (1924 – Click here/2007) US computing pioneer -inventor (FORTRAN computer language)

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Ferlin Husky 1927 – March 17,2001 US country singer Born to Lose, Gone)On the Wings of a Dove

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Andy Williams 1930-Sept 25,2012, US singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)

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Click here(1930– ) French film director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless) A Woman is a Woman, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and Weekend.

 An older director once asked him if he wouldn’t admit that a movie should have a beginning, middle and end. “Yes,” Godard said, “but not necessarily in that order.” His other films include

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Bobby Allison 1937 - auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500)

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John Cale, 1940-  Velvet Underground, (1968 'White Light, White Heat', 1967 Velvet Underground And Nico 'peeled banana' album).

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Click here (1948– ) English singer (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon)

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Click here 1951-  Four-time Indy 500 winner

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Click here 1960- US Actor

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Click here   1983-  Singer/ Songwriter Keep Your Head Up

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Passed:

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Clara Reeve  1729-1807 English author (old English baron)
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Click here (Click here/1850–1894) English /Scottish writer

From The Feast

Night over isle and sea rolled her curtain of stars,
Then a trouble awoke in the air, the east was banded with bars;
Dawn as yellow as sulphur leaped on the mountain height;
Dawn, in the deepest glen, fell a wonder of light;
High and clear stood the palms in the eye of the brightening east,
And lo! from the sides of the sea the broken sound of the feast!
As, when in days of summer, through open windows, the fly
Swift as a breeze and loud as a trump goes by,
But when frosts in the field have pinched the wintering mouse,
Blindly noses and buzzes and hums in the firelit house:
So the sound of the feast gallantly trampled at night,
So it staggered and drooped, and droned in the morning light.

From THE FEAST OF FAMINE   MARQUESAN MANNERS

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Click here (june 14,1820- 1905)  Author Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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Click here (Click here/1821–1910) US evangelist, founder of Christian Science

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Click here (  feb 5,1841-1919) French Painter Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette

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Click here ( June 18,1896 – 1945 )Playwright The Philadelphia Story

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Annette Kolb (Feb.3,1870- 1967)  Austrian writer- pacifist/ novelist,

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Click here  ( Nov 16,1896 -1980 ) Founder of the British Union of Fascists

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Virginia Lacy Jones June 25, 1912- 1984 US black librarian/presidential advisor

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Click here (Click here/1913–1993) US physician, biologist, writer The Lives of a Cell

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Click here  (Click here/1942 –1999)  US actor

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Click here (Click here/1917–2000) US writer Poet Annie Allen SPEECH TO THE YOUNG : SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS-TOWARD

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Hoyt Curtin   -2000, American composer He was the composer of many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons' theme songs, including The Flintstones, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, Superfriends, The Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, and The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

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Grady Martin  January 17, 1929 -2001, American session guitarist Member of the legendary Nashville A-Team, he played guitar on hits ranging from Roy Orbison's ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’, Marty Robbins' ‘El Paso’ and Loretta Lynn's ‘Coal Miner's Daughter’. During a 50-year career, Martin backed such names as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Joan Baez and J. J. Cale.

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Click here (Click here/1941 –2003) English actor

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Derek Wadsworth  Feb5,1939  -2008, Brit Composer, keyboardist and arranger As a musician he worked with Georgie Fame, Alan Price, George Harrison, Mike Oldfield, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, Simply Red. Arranger for David Essex, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, The Small Faces, The Rolling Stones and Manfred Mann.

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History:

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1818. Click here entered the Union - the twenty-first state takes its name from the Illinois Confederation—a group of Algonquian-speaking tribes native to the area.

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1961, Brian Epstein invited The Beatles into his office to discuss the possibility of becoming their manager.

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1966, Ray Charles was given a five year suspended prison sentence and a $10,000 fine after being convicted of possessing heroin and marijuana.

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Bonus Poem:

Click hereDriving Home the Cows.

Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass He turned them into the river lane; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadow bars again.   Under the willows and over the hill, He patiently followed their sober pace; The merry whistle for once was still, And something shadowed the sunny face.   Only a boy! and his father had said He never could let his youngest go: Two already were lying dead, Under the feet of the trampling foe.   But after the evening work was done, And the frogs were loud in the meadow-swamp , Over his shoulder he slung his gun, And stealthily followed the footpath damp.   Across the clover, and through the wheat, With resolute heart and purpose grim: Though the dew was on his hurrying feet, And the blind bat's flitting startled him.   Thrice since then had the lanes been white, And the orchards sweet with apple-bloom; And now, when the cows came back at night, The feeble father drove them home.   For news had come to the lonely farm That three were lying where two had lain; And the old man's tremulous, palsied arm Could never lean on a son's again.   The summer day grew cool and late: He went for the cows when the work was done; But down the lane, as he opened the gate, He saw them coming one by one:   Brindle, Ebony, Speckle, and Bess, Shaking their horns in the evening wind; Cropping the buttercups out of the grass, But who was it following close behind?   Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue; And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked out a face that the father knew.   For close-barred prisons will sometimes yawn, And yield their dead unto life again; And the day that comes with a cloudy dawn, In golden glory at last may wane.   The great tears sprang to their meeting eyes; For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb, And under the silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home.

Kate Putnam Osgood.

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