December  6

Events:

Dec 6  Rochester Writers Night  HolidayAll OpenMic begins at 6:15  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. Click here

December 6 Manchester –Milly’s Tavern– Slam Free or Die – , 7:00pm - 11:00pm  Click here  Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here ) Click here

December 6 for Winter Social and Reading by Award Winning Author, Justin Torres

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Dec 6 Concord NH Donald Hall at Red River Theatres, "Christmas at Eagle Pond" 6 p.m. e Donald Hall draws from his own childhood memories in this moving and masterful story to give himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. To accommodate the expected crowd, we will be holding this event next door at Red River Theatres. This will be a ticketed event, to pay for the venue. Tickets are $6 from Click here, or one free with each purchase of Christmas at Eagle Pond from Gibson's Bookstore. Click here (Hardcover) By Click here, Click here $14.95  Click here

·         12/6 event with Donald Hall: We have arranged with Click here for this event to be FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A portion of our book sales will benefit the Theatre, instead.
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Click here 1478-1529 Italian humanist, diplomat and courtier

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 Susanna Moodie, born Strickland1803- April 8, 1885  ) Eng/ Can. Poet

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Click hereClick hereClick here 1883-April 10,1931 Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist   The Prophet (1923).

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[Alfred] Click hereClick hereClick here  (12/06/1886 – Click here/1918)  US writer
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Click hereClick here  (12/06/1896 – Click here/1983)  US lyricist (brother of Click here) Click here He collaborated with his brother, Click here, and other composers on such shows as: Lady Be Good (1924), and Lady in the Dark (1940, with Kurt Weill), and Cover Girl (1944, with Jerome Kern). His songs include "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm," and "Someone To Watch Over Me."

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Click hereClick here  (12/06/1920 –120512 )  US composer, musician jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice)

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Passed:

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales, (January 8, 1601 – 1658) Spanish philosopher Click here and Click here prose writer

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Huddie William Ledbetter  Click here  (Click here/1889 – 12/06/1949)  American blues artist / singer    wrote many songs including 'Goodnight Irene', ‘Cotton Fields’, 'The Rock Island Line', and ‘The Midnight Special'.

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Click here (Click here/1892 –1951) US writer, "New Yorker" founder

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Click here  (Click here/1874 –1955)  US baseball player

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Click here  (Click here/1936 –1988)  US singer, songwriter  Scored the 1964 UK & US No.1 single 'Pretty Woman', ‘Only the Lonely’ and ‘Crying’… was a member of The Traveling Wilburys (known as Lefty Wilbury) with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty and had the 1988 UK No.21 single 'Handle With Care'.

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from In Dreams

Candy colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep,everything is all right"

I close my eyes,then I drift away
Into the magic night,I softly say
A silent prayer, like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream, my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you, in dreams I talk to you
In dreams your mine, all, all the time were together
In dreams,in dreams

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History:

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1969, The Rolling Stones played a free festival at Altamont in California, along with Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby Stills Nash & Young. Rolling Stones …Fan Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death as the group played by Hell's Angels who'd been hired to police the event. It's claimed Hunter was waving a revolver. One other man drowned, two men were killed by in a hit-and run accident and two babies were born.

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1921, Click here was born. Ireland's 26 southern counties were granted independence from Britain, while 6 of the 8 Protestant-majority counties of Ulster, in the northeast, remained part of the United Kingdom.

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Click here1884, workers placed the 3,300-pound marble capstone on the Click here and topped it with a nine-inch pyramid of cast aluminum, completing construction of the 555-foot Egyptian obelisk. Nearly fifty years earlier, the Washington National Monument Society choose Click here' design to honor first American president and founding father Click here. The privately funded organization laid the monument's cornerstone on Click here, 1848, in Washington, D.C.

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Click here1864, Abraham Lincoln nominated Salmon P. Chase chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he was sworn in on December 15. A graduate of Click here, Chase studied law under Attorney General Click here.

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Bonus Poem:

I smell happenings!...

Have you heard the dry earth shrug herself
For a storm that tore the trees?

Have you watched loot-hungry Faithful
Praising Allah on their knees?

Have you felt the short hairs rising
When the moon slipped out of sight,

And the chink of steel on rock explained
That footfall in the night?

Have you seen a gray boar sniff up-wind
In the mauve of waking day?

Have you heard a mad crowd pause and think?
Have you seen all Hell to pay?

                                                       By TALBOT MUNDY

From THE WINDS OF THE WORLD 

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