December  4

Events:

December 4 Moultonboro -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, –Ed’s sister Ginger , ( Virginia Cote ) who is working on her second book , Features, followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)

Dec 4 Portland Me, Port Veritas  . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic 7:30 Feature -Derek M. Avila is a poet out of New Hampshire. . 8:30) . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant  375 Fore Street  PortlandEnjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar.  Gil Helmick   400.7543Click here

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British essayist, philosopher, and historian

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Click here (1875 – Click here/1902) English writer- author (Erewhom,Way of All Flesh)

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Lillian Russell Helen Louise Leonard  (Dec4, 1861 – June 6, 1922)  Click here actress and Click here.

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Click here (1875 – Click here/1926) German writer poet (Duino Elegies) Sunset

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Herbert E. Read (1893- June 12, 1968 ) English poet, critic, and prolific essayist, a philosophical anarchist and outspoken patriot

THE MEDITATION OF A LOVER AT DAYBREAK 

I CAN JUST SEE the distant trees

And I wonder whether they will

Or will not

Bow their tall plumes at your passing

In the carriage of the morning wind:

Or whether they will merely

Tremble against the cold dawnlight,

Shaking a yellow leaf

to the dew-wet earth.

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Cornell Woolrich (1903-Sept 25,1968      ). US mystery writer crime writer / adapted for radio and film noir, The Bride Wore Black (novel: 1940; film: 1968) and Night Has a Thousand Eyes (novel: 1945; film: 1948). His story "It Had to Be Murder" (1942) inspired the Hitchcock classic Rear Window (1954).

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Freddy Cannon, 1940- singer, (1959 US & UK No.3 single, 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans').

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Passed:

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Click here (Click here/1048 –1131) Persian writer, mathematician

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Alexander Hume( 1560-1609) Scot Poet

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Click here (Click here/1585 –1642) French minister, clergy

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Click here (Click here/1588 –1679) English philosopher, scholar

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Click here (Click here/1685 –1732) English writer poet and dramatist, (Beggar's Opera)

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Stefan George July 12,1886 - 1933 German poet (Das neue Reich) Algabal

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Click here Nov 27,1891-  1951   Spanish Poet Generation of '27

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Click here (Click here/1906 –1975) German-US political scientist - sociologist, Origins of Totalitarianism

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Click here (Click here/1913–1976) English composer (Beggar's Opera, War Requiem)

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Tommy Bolin  Aug 1,1951 -1976, American guitarist; member of Zephyr (1969 to 1971), The James Gang (1973 to 1974) and Deep Purple (1975 to 1976).

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Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 - 1980 ) American Click here.

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Click here ( Click here/1919–1989) US writer

Sleeping with Boa

I show her how to put her arms around me,

but she’s much too small.

What’s worse, she doesn’t understand.

And

although she lies beside me, sticking

out her tongue, it’s herself she licks.

She likes my stroking hand.

And

even lets me kiss.

But at my demand:

“Now, do it to me, like this,”

she backs off with a hiss.

What’s in her little mind?

Jumping off the bed,

she shows me her behind,

but curls up on the rug instead.

I beg her to return. At first, she did,

then went and hid

under the covers. She’s playing with my feet!

“Oh, Boa, come back. Be sweet,

Lie against me here where I’m nice and warm.

Settle down. Don’t claw, don’t bite.

Stay with me tonight.”

Seeming to consent, she gives a little whine.

Her deep, deep pupils meet mine

with a look that holds a flood ...

But not my brand.

Not at all.

And,

what‘s worse, she’s much too small.

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Click here (Click here/1940–1993) US musician, composer (Mothers of Invention),Joes Garage  Help! I’m a Rock.

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Forrest J Ackerman (Nov 24, 1916 –2008) Click here collector of Click here Click hereand movie memorabilia and a Click here.

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History:

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1619, thirty-eight colonists arrived from England and ventured ashore to settle the land grant along the James River that became known as the Berkeley Hundred (Berkeley Plantation).

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1783, General George Washington received the officers of the victorious Continental Army to say farewell in the Long Room of Click here, located on the corner of Pearl and Broad streets, in lower Manhattan.

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1875, William M. "Boss" Tweed, notorious leader of New York City's Democratic political machine, escaped from the Ludlow Street jail

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1956, The so-called 'Million Dollar Quartet' impromptu jam session took place at Sun Studios in Memphis with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.

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1971, The Montreux Casino in Switzerland burnt to the ground during a gig by Frank Zappa. The incident is immortalized by Deep Purple's 1973 hit, 'Smoke On The Water' - the venue was the Montreux Jazz Festival

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Bonus Poem:

Click hereTHE HALF-MOON COUPLE

                                                             after the lithograph by Marc Chagall

While I am two parts: hands

and veil, you are mostly suit.

Somehow, there is enough sage

between us, sticks of lavender, stems

of this canoe. Forget that I am drawn

out of troubles, that love

anchors itself to certain beds. I am praying

for a paler sun, a simple wedding

band without stars, longer arms to pull you

close.

The moon holds us in its boat

again and again; I will forgive,

you will apologize and night

won't seem as bad as when we both sleep

in our own half-rooms, half-lives,

our half-joys illuminating only part of the sky.

Kelli Russell Agodon

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