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Strafford Notes, March 10, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013 5:43:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

A Sabbath Strafford Notes....enjoy.....

March 10
Daylight Savings Time-shproingg a head
Some Events Coming Up:
March 11, Conway Open Mic Nights at the Conway Public Library ,Open floor from 6:30-7:20. Then after a break for refreshments (and setting up) the Singer Songwriter Poet Laureate of Rochester, Pat Obrien is Featured Performer at 7:30. Olga 447-5552omorrill.conwaypubliclibrary.org

March 11 UNH Hennessey Theater NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM
March 12th Portland Port VERITAS Open Mic featuring Poet, activist, and essayist Rachel Mckibbens At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30 FMI please visit our site www.portveritas.com
March 13 Exeter - 6:30 p.m. - Water Street Bookstore, downtown Exeter - Poetry Reading with featured readers Julie Dickson and Rosemary Staples, followed by open mic. Contact John Ferguson, 778 9731.

March 16 Dunbarton, The Spireside Coffee House at the Dunbarton Congregational Church will feature Decatur Creek Doors open by 7:00 PM to sign up for the Open Mic which starts at 7:30. We welcome Poets, Storytellers and all styles of music!
Come and enjoy the show as we serve delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. Visit www.dccucc.org or email Lizz.dccucc.org for more information.

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Born:
0310
[Karl Wilhelm] Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 – 01/12/1829)German Romantic writer critic and philosopher
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/schlegel.htm
http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/1477940

Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857), German poet, novella writer, and autobiographer, whose folksong-style poetic lyrics were set to music by Schumann, Brahms, and others
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05363b.htm

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810 – 9 August 1886) Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant
The Fair Hills Of Ireland
From the Irish
A plenteous place is Ireland for hospitable cheer,
Uileacan dubh O!
Where the wholesome fruit is bursting from the yellow barley ear;
Uileacan dubh O!
There is honey in the trees where her misty vales expand,
And her forest paths in summer are by falling waters fann’d,
There is dew at high noontide there, and springs i’ the yellow sand,
On the fair hills of holy Ireland.

Curl’d he is and ringleted, and plaited to the knee—
Uileacan dubh O!
Each captain who comes sailing across the Irish Sea;
Uileacan dubh O!
And I will make my journey, if life and health but stand,
Unto that pleasant country, that fresh and fragrant strand,
And leave your boasted braveries, your wealth and high command,
For the fair hills of holy Ireland.

Large and profitable are the stacks upon the ground,
Uileacan dubh O!
The butter and the cream do wondrously abound;
Uileacan dubh O!
The cresses on the water and the sorrels are at hand,
And the cuckoo ’s calling daily his note of music bland,
And the bold thrush sings so bravely his song i’ the forests grand,
On the fair hills of holy Ireland.
Online text © 1998-2013 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/10444/

Henry Watson Fowler (1858- 26 December ,1933) English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language.A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926.
http://www.poemhunter.com/henry-watson-fowler/biography/

Heywood Hale Broun(1918 – 09/05/2001) US actor /journalist /author of the memoir Whose Little Boy Are You? (1983
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112741/

Boris Vian( 1920-June 23,1959) French 'absurdist' writer novelist and playwright, a jazz connoisseur and critic, Dixieland trumpeters, and author of more than 400 songsHis play The General's Tea Party (1962)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bvian.htm

Kenneth C "Jethro" Burns 1920-Feb 4, 1989 , US mandolinist/country singer (Homer & Jethro)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jethro-burns-mn0000294152

Manolis Anagnostakis,( 1925 - 2005) Greek poet 13-12-43
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/modgreek/Home/Window%20to%20Greek%20Culture/Literature/LIT_Anagnostakis_Manolis_Poems.pdf

Hugh Nissenson, (1933). US writer - short stories, novel, The Tree of Life (1985)
http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/nissenson.html
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nissenson_hugh

Dean Torrence, 1940- Jan and Dean, (1963 'Surf City', co written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson).
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jan-amp-dean-mn0000213165
David Rabe (1940 - ) US playwright and novelist The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1971), Sticks and Bones (1971). Hurlyburly (1984), Goose and Tom-Tom (1986), , A Question of Mercy (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704792/
Chuck Norris (1940 – ) US actor, kickboxer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001569/

Tom Scholz,1947- guitar, keyboards, Boston, (1977 'More Than A Feeling', 1986 'Amanda').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-scholz-mn0001714100

Sharon Stone (1958 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232/

Neneh Cherry, 1964- singer, songwriter, (1988 'Buffalo Stance' and 1994 '7 Seconds' with Youssou N'dour).
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/neneh-cherry-mn0000332257

Edie Brickell Mrs Paul Simon ( 1966 - )/rocker (& New Bohemians) 1989 with the New Bohemians, 'What I Am',
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/edie-brickell-mn0000179191

Passed:
0310
John Denham, (1615- 1669) English poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/sir-john-denham/biography/

Giuseppe Mazzini (06/22/1805 –1872) Genoan revolutionary
http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/mazzini.htm

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (03/29/1831 –1919) English-US writer
http://www.online-literature.com/amelia-barr/

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (02/01/1884 –1937) Russian writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSzamyatin.htm
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20110405

Mikhaïl Boulgakov, (May 15,1891-1940) Russian writer -novel The Master and Margarita
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bulgakov.htm

Laurence Binyon ( 1869-1943) Brit Poet
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbinyon.htm
A Song

FOR Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth,
There is no measure upon earth.
Nay, they wither, root and stem,
If an end be set to them.
Overbrim and overflow,
5
If you own heart you would know;
For the spirit born to bless
Lives but in its own excess.

Irvin S. Cobb (06/23/1876 –1944) US writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167769/
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=irvin+s+cobb&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=4342095119&hvpos=1o1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=179935655254666203&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&ref=pd_sl_84v5pjbm8c_e

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald 07/24/1900 –1948 US writer
http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/chronology/chronology.asp

Ray Milland (January 3, 1905 -1986) Brit/US actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001537/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Andy Gibb (03/05/1958 –1988) English singer
http://www.last.fm/music/Andy+Gibb

Lavern Baker ( Nov 11, 1929 -1997), American rhythm and blues singer( 1958 single 'I Cried A Tear.')
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048673/

Lloyd Bridges (01/15/1913 –1998) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000978/

John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 –2000) American science fiction author
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?John_Sladek

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud pseudonym Mœbius (8 May 1938 –2012) French comics artist
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/14579
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320786/

Sites:
http://www.facebook.com/steven.manning.338#!/pages/Portable-Pantry/253269396586
http://www.limerock.com/
http://www.haslams.com/index.shtml
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=101&lang=en
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
History:
0310
1876, Alexander Graham Bell conducted a successful experiment with the telephone.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar10.html

1958, Big Records released 'Our Song' by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, Tom and Jerry- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/simon-amp-garfunkel-mn0000038936

Bonus Poem:
Valley Song

From “Redhaw Winds”

YOUR eyes and the valley are memories—
Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl.
It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline;
It was here we turned the coffee-cups upside down.
And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
5
I will see you again in a million years.
I will see you again to-morrow.
I will never know your dark eyes again.
These are three ghosts I keep;
These are three sumach-red dogs I run with.
10
All of it wraps and knots to a riddle:
I have the moon, the timberline, and you.
All three are gone—and I keep all three.
By Carl Sandburg

OF INTEREST:
at the bottom of this site { http://www.reverbnation.com/venue/981486 }
is a connection to Rick Clogston’s (really) famous ode to your favorite hobbit! Rick shows up at the Moultonboro library on occasion, has some cd’s, and is very personable! His group features in The Greenhouse 17 Lake Tarleton Rd, Warren, NH in April.

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