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Strafford Notes, 18 February 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013 10:00:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Two days in a row I have not been able to upload Sgrafford Notes. I hope I am successful this tiem.

FEB 18

Presidents Day

Events:

Feb 18 Rye,(third Monday)– 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café,– Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, Click here).

Feb 18 Strafford, Hill’s Library Poet’s Night Featuring Carla Desrosiers. Starts at 6:00pm, Open mic follows; snacks & beverages –Ken Berry/Click here

Born:

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Click here Click here 1849-April 6,1906 Norwegian novelist

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Click here (1883 – October 26, 1957), Greek novelist, journalist, politician and philosopher Zorba the Greek

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Click here (1896 – Click here/1966) French poet, essayist, critic, and Click here, chief promoter and one of the founders of Surrealist movement Less Time Manifeste du Surréalisme

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Click here (1909-04/13/1993; US novelist, critic, teacher 1971 Pulitzer Prize

: Angle of Repose(1971—Pulitzer Prize), Big Rock Candy Mountain(1943), The Spectator Bird (1976—National Book Award), and Crossing to Safety (1987). Mormon Country (1942);Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954).

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Archie Randolph Ammons (1926 – February 25, 2001) Click here Click here. Sphere

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Click here 1929- Brit Writer -espionage thrillers The Ipcress File

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Gahan Wilson (1930 - ) American author, Click here and illustrator

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Click here Chloe Anthony Wofford, (1931-), African American novelist -Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 and the Pulitzer in 1987

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Click here aka Rey Domini / Gambia Adisa (1934 – Click here/1992) Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist. essayist, novelist, and autobiographer a prominent feminist and gay rights advocate A Burst of Light

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Marin Sorescu 1936- 96 Romanian poet/dramatist from Paintings

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Click here 1936- US novelist (Earth's Children series)

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Click here 1961- US author Cyberculture analyst
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Sean Watkins, 1977 - American guitarist and songwriter Click here

from"Reasons Why"

Where am I today? I wish that I knew
'Cause looking around there's no sign of you
I don't remember one jump or one leap
Just quiet steps away from your lead
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Standing on a darkened stage, stumbling through the lines
Others have excuses, but I have my reasons why

We get distracted by dreams of our own
But nobody's happy while feeling alone
And knowing how hard it hurts when we fall
We lean another ladder against the wrong wall

And climb high to the highest rung, to shake fists at the sky
While others have excuses, I have my reasons why

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Regina Spektor, 1980 - Russian-American Anti-Folk singer and songwriter

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Passed:

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Albert Payson Terhune, (December 21, 1872 –1942) Click here Click here (Lad, a Dog), Click here( Sunnybank Kennels) and Click here.

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Robert Merrill, ( 1921 -1998) songwriter (“If I’d Known You Were Comin’, I’d ’Ve Baked a Cake,” Funny Girl, Peoplewho need People )
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Click hereClick here (Click here/1951-2001) US NASCAR driver /seven Winston Cup Championships

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Click here ( April 23,1931-2001 US baseball ) Hit 512 home runs

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Johnny Paycheck Donald Eugene Lytle, (1938-2003) American country singer/songwriter "Take This Job and Shove It"1977

Heaertbreak Tennessee

There are things to do in Knoxville

There are things to do in Nashville

    And Rock City is a place you oughta see

But if you want to visit my town

You won't find it on the road map

And I can't say much for Heartbreak Tennessee

I live in a house with wall to wall sorrow

On the corner of pain and misery

I'm the judge and the mayor and the chief of police

In the town  of Heartbreak Tennessee

There are things to see in Memphis

And if you ever visit Nashville

You shouldn't miss the Grand Ole Opry

But if you like weird sensations

Like crying for recreation

Then you'll have a ball in Heartbreak Tennessee

Now I've got some buddies Joe Pain and Sam Teardrop

They're all I've got to keep me company

Smallest city in the nation we're the entire population

In the town  of Heartbreak Tennessee

                                                                          Written by Jack H. Clement

Sites:

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History:

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1865.The mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered control of the city to Union Brigadier General Alexander Schimmelfennig

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Bonus Poem:

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember’d not.
Heigh-ho! sing, &c.

Act II, Scene 7 from As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1600)

Editorialll:

'colder than a snowmans inner ear out there this morning...Spark stuck his nose out the door ducked back in and said"I can hold it a while yet...'

Every time we get a snowbird Manning up in Feb this happens....hmmmmm

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