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Strafford Notes, 11 May, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013 5:32:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

A little rain today....not bad...the flowers needed

May 11
Coming Events:
Of Interest:
May 11th May 12th –& 18th –19th Kingston NH The New Hampshire Renaissance Faire At Three Maples Farm ; from 10 to 5 PM each day. A portion of the proceeds raised is donated to charity. Tickets for this event are: $12.50 for adults and $8.00 for kids from ages 5 -12. Kids age 4 and under will be free. 3 Maples Renaissance Corporation 9 Thorne Road Kingston, NH 03848 http://www.bigskyjournal.com/index.php http://www.nhrenfaire.com/

Note; Again, this year, Ed Pacht will be among the performers, reprising his role as the Friar: Ed’s book, Sylvanus Anonymus of the Greenfriars, is a fictional episode (time travel, adventure, and much poetry…)from the life of this character.
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?&action=GET&textsid=32854
http://www.amazon.com/Sylvanus-Anonymus-Ed-Pacht/dp/110559923X
Born:
0511
Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-Feb 22,1794) German scientist and librarian who produced the first, book based on the exaggerated and fantastic accounts of war adventures and hunting experiences of Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/munchh.htm
Irving Berlin Israel Baline (1888 – 09/22/1989) Russian-American composer - Alexander's Ragtime Band" "White Christmas," "Easter Parade," "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "God Bless America."
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/songs/C3
http://www.rnh.com/irvingberlin
Martha Graham (1894 – 04/01/1991) US choreographer, dancer
http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16583/
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3735&source_type=A
Mari Sandoz (1901-1966), Nebraskan writer who wrote the six-volume Great Plains series ;Crazy Horse (1942),; The Buffalo Hunters (1954); and The Battle of the Little Bighorn (1966). Cheyenne Autumn (1953) and These Were the Sioux (1961)
http://davidbristow.com/sandoz.html
Kaarlo Sarkia 1902-1945 Finnish poet and translator "Älä elämää pelkää" (Don't be afraid of life)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sarkia.htm
http://jewelsfromfinlandthree.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/kaarlo-sarkia-1902-1945-apollo-of-finnish-poetry/
Salvador Dali (1904 – 01/23/1989) Spanish surrealist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198557/
http://www.thedali.org/home.php
Camilo José Cela Cela y Trulock (1916-2002) - Spanish writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cela.htm
Richard P. Feynman (1918 – 02/15/1988) US Nobelist physicist, teacher, storyteller, http://richard-feynman.net/
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930) Barbadian poet, playwright, critic, historian, , and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/brathwa.htm
Louis Farrakhan (1933 – ) US Islamic leader
http://www.noi.org/about_the_honorable_louis_farrakhan.shtml
Michael Heller (1937- ), American poet, essayist and critic
From THE CARDIAC POEM
7

a flutter
a seizure; thick
fibres that contract

a bird
crushed in a cage
of tissue and fluids--the heart sac

how many Medieval men
saw the heart?

how many
see the unneutral
heart of Arts and Letters

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lheller1.htm
http://www.aldaily.com/
http://www.laufman.org/Books.htm
{from Skip, with our friend Dudley in our thoughts}
Passed:
0511
Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607) Eng Elizabethan Scholar
http://www.poemhunter.com/sir-edward-dyer/biography/
Jean de la Bruyere (08/16/1645 –1696) French scholar
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08728a.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/351/
Jules Hardouin Mansard, (Jan. 13, 1598-1708) architect of Versailles,
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Jules_Hardouin_Mansart.html
Catherine Cockburn, (Aug 16,1679-1749)Eng writer, playwright and poet.
http://www.evi.com/q/obituary_of_catherine_trotter_cockburn
http://www.women-philosophers.com/Catharine-Trotter-Cockburn.html
http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511487125&cid=CBO9780511487125A012
William Pitt the elder (11/15/1708 –1778) English statesman
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms/chatham.html
John Heart (1711-1779) US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
http://www.doublegv.com/ggv/JHart.html
John Trumbull (April 24, 1750 –1831) American poet.
http://www.poemhunter.com/john-trumbull/biography/
Henri Frederic Amiel (09/27/1821 –1881) Swiss writer
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8545/pg8545.html
Max Reger (03/19/1873 –1916) German composer
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/reger.php
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Reger-Max.htm
William Dean Howells (03/01/1837 –1920) US writer /realist author The Rise of Silas Lapham., literary critic& editor of the Atlantic Monthly
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/
http://www.online-literature.com/william-dean-howells/
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (01/29/1874 -1960) US major philanthropist
http://www.rockarch.org/bio/jdrjr.php
John Beecher (Jan 22, 1904 –1980) American activist poet, writer and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement.
From To Live and Die In Dixie
III.
Asparagus fresh from the garden
My dad insisted
Went best of breakfast toast with melted butter
So Rob was on the job by six
He used to wake me whistling blues
And whistled them all day till plumb
Black dark when he got off
Times Mother was away
He’d play piano for me
Real barrelhouse
(I liked it better than our pianola classics)
and clog of the hardwood floor
Rob quit us once to paper houses on his own
But white men came at night and sloshed
Paint all over his fresh-papered walls
Took the spark plugs out of Model T truck
Poured sand in the cylinders
Then screwed the plugs back in
So when Rob cranked it up next day
He wrecked the motor
He came to work for us
But I can’t seem to remember
Him whistling much again
http://www.storysouth.com/thicket/poems/beecher_five_poems.html
Bob Marley (02/06/1945 –1981) Jamaican singer-songwriter guitarist, reggae icon 1981 single 'No Woman No Cry', In 1990, the 6th February was proclaimed a national holiday in Jamaica to commemorate his birth. The compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, is the best-selling reggae album ever with sales of more than 20 million copies. Time magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers' Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century. http://www.bobmarleymuseum.com/
Zenna Chlarson Henderson (Nov 1, 1917 –1983) American science fiction and fantasy novella and short story author, and an elementary school teacher.
http://www.philsp.com/articles/pastmasters_04.html
http://gtapestry.blogspot.com/2009/08/zenna-henderson.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376637/
Bill Graham 1951 -1996, the Irish journalist credited with discovering U2, ;also the co-founder of the Irish music paper Hot Press. Members from Clannad, U2, Hothouse Flowers and Gavin Friday all attended his funeral.
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2012/06/12/a-fanboy-writes/
Douglas Adams (03/11/1952 –2001) English writer
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/05/happy-towel-day-25-douglas-adams-quotes-to-live-by/
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/11/2013
Noel Redding 1946-2003, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist ; played on the classic Hendrix albums 'Are You Experienced', 'Axis: Bold as Love' and 'Electric Ladyland,' also a member of Fat Mattress and formed The Noel Redding Band.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/71102/hendrix-bassist-noel-redding-dead-at-57
John Whitehead (July 2,1948) -2004, US songwriter. co-wrote 'Back Stabbers' for the O'Jays and as McFadden & Whitehead wrote and sang 'Ain't No Stopping Us Now'
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-whitehead-mn0000193584
Sites:
http://audreydrake.com/
http://www.toadbooks.com/
http://www.virtuerecords.com/
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
http://www.oldglory.com/lp/main
History:
0511
1858- the great state of Minnesota was admitted into the Union. In 1858, mothers had to know how to drive a yoke of oxen, handle a pitchfork, and churn their own butter. They should not have had to wait 56 years for an official holiday. Minnesota: it's the state that invented the stapler. It gave us water skis and roller blades. Not to mention Scotch tape, Bisquick, and the bundt pan. Tonka Trucks come from Minnetonka, Minnesota, and in 1937, Minnesota gave us Spam*
* http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/05/11
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may11.html
Bonus Poem:
Sonnets are full of love

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.

Christina Rossetti

(This is the dedicatory sonnet that prefaces Rossetti’s fourth collection, A Pageant and Other Poems.)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19188/19188-h/19188-h.htm
{from Skip-with my Mom, in the Belknap County Home-90 years old ,[I went to see her Thursday ,but the place was in quarantine because of a gastro-thingy],My Little Sis ,Sue ,flew in

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