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Strafford Notes, 6 March 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:02:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Action/Thriller

If you're in Portsmouth, the HOOT tonight would be an interesting place to go. Get out, in advStrafford Notesance of tomorrow's storm.

March 6
Events:
Portsmouth, 7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth – Portsmouth Poetry Hoot – featuring Wendy Mnookin and the Rev. Anne Fowler., followed by open mike (772-4345, , 738 Islington St., Hoots sponsored by Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program (info.pplp.org) http://www.PPLP.org/hootnight.htm) http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm ).
Born:
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Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475 – 02/18/1564) Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=3319&page=1

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) French dramatist, satirist, and soldier Voyage dans la Lune (1657)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bergerac.htm

Jacques Jasmin (1798- Oct 4,1864) French- Provençal poet Papillotos ("Curl Papers")1825
http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Jacques_Jasmin

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 06/29/1861) English Victorian writer & poet Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ebrownin.htm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elizabeth-barrett-browning
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ebb/61a16.html
from Aurora Leigh: Book One
I am like,
They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows
Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth
Of delicate features,—paler, near as grave;
But then my mother's smile breaks up the whole,
And makes it better sometimes than itself.
So, nine full years, our days were hid with God
Among his mountains: I was just thirteen,
Still growing like the plants from unseen roots
In tongue-tied Springs,—and suddenly awoke
To full life and life's needs and agonies
With an intense, strong, struggling heart beside
A stone-dead father. Life, struck sharp on death,
Makes awful lightning. His last word was "Love—"
"Love, my child, love, love!"—(then he had done with grief)
"Love, my child." Ere I answered he was gone,
And none was left to love in all the world.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8438615-Aurora_Leigh_Book_One-by-Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning
Georg Luger (1849-Dec 22,1893) Austrian Inventor of the Luger pistol
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10085-loewe-ludwig

John D. MacArthur (1897-Jan.6,1978) Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

Robert Moses Lefty Grove (1900-May 22, 1975 ) MLB pitcher
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=grovele01

Bob Wills (1905-May 13, 1975 ) US Musician King of Western Swing
http://www.bobwills.com/

Will Eisner (1917 – 01/03/2005) US artist Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists
http://www.willeisnerweek.com/

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928 – ) Colombian writer One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).
1982 Nobelist journalist, novelist and short story writerThe novella La hojarasca (1955, Leaf Storm)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/marquez.htm
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/e/B000AQ1JWC

David Jon Gilmour (1946- ) England, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Wall)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-gilmour-mn0000582930

Stedman Graham 1951- US self-help author
http://www.stedmangraham.com/

Wang Anyi (1954 - ) {Wang An-yi } Chinese writer –novels, essays, journalism, travel writings, literary criticism, and memoirs
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wang.htm

Shaquille O'Neal (1972 – ) US basketball player
http://shaq.com/

Passed:
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Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) Eng Elizabethan writer, poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/beaumont-francis

Davy Crockett (08/17/1786 –1836) US explorer, politician
CROCKETT'S FAREWELL

Farewell to the mountains whose mazes to me
Were more beautiful far than Eden could be;
No fruit was forbidden, but Nature has spread
Her bountiful board, and her children were fed.
The hills were our garners- our herds wildly grew
And nature was shepherd and husbandman too
I felt like a monarch, yet thought like a man,
As I thanked the great Giver, and worshipped his plan.

The home I forsake when my offspring arose;
The graves I forsake where my children repose.
The home I redeemed from the savage and wild;
The home I have loved as a father his child;
The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared,
The flocks that I raised and the cabin I reared;
The wife of my bosom-- Farewell to ye all!
In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

Farewell to my country! I fought for thee well,
When the savage rushed forth like the demons from hell.
In peace or in war I have stood by thy side--
My country, for thee I have lived, would have died!
But I am cast off, my career now is run,
And I wander abroad like the prodigal son--
Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread,
The fallen-- despised-- will again go ahead.

Penned by David Crockett, and edited by "Pegleg" Longfellow

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46834
Artemus Ward Charles Farrrar Browne, (04/26/1834 –1867) US writer & humorist
http://www.onlinenevada.org/artemus_ward

Louisa May Alcott (11/29/1832 –1888) US writer
http://www.louisamayalcott.org/

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (03/08/1841 –1935) US Supreme Court Justice
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm

Pearl S. Buck (06/26/1892 –1973) US writer
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/buck-bio.html

Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 –1982) US writer
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=index

Sites:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/
http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/blackberry_books.html
http://annieboutelle.com/poems/
http://www.abbielibrary.org/

History:
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1836 13th and final day of the siege of the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas. After 12 days of continuous artillery bombardment, General Santa Anna's 6,000 Mexican troops stormed the mission and slaughtered the defenders, including Colonel William B. Travis and Davy Crockett

http://www.thealamo.org/main/index.php

1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata (The Strayed Woman) had its premiere in Venice. It was based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=139

Bonus Poem:
Sonnet (1979)

Caught -- the bubble
in the spirit level,
a creature divided;
and the compass needle
wobbling and wavering,
undecided.
Freed -- the broken
thermometer's mercury
running away;
and the rainbow-bird
from the narrow bevel
of the empty mirror,
flying wherever
it feels like, gay!

-Elizabeth Bishop

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