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Strafford Notes, 19 May, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:24:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Computer has been dowen since Thursday. Got it fixed yesterday. Apologies for no Strafford Notes during that time

May 19
Events:
May 19 Portsmouth 1-5 Walter Butts Memorial/Life Celebration will be at the Portsmouth Women’s City Club (603 436-1228) 375 Middle Street, Portsmouth 0..Designated speakers, open mic for poems or comments Light lunch is planned http://www.facebook.com/groups/82708845081/permalink/10152698854630082/#!/s.stephanie.35
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 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
A Contest Deadline:
June 17th at 6:00 PM 11th Annual Goodwin Library Poet’s Tea Farmington Recreation Center
Get your thinking cap on, grab your favorite pen, and discover what inspires your inner poet!
Categories are: Children (ages 6-12), Teens (age 13-19) and Adults (ages 19+) Prizes will be awarded for the top three poems in each category, and will be read at our Poet’s Tea. Deadline for submission is Friday, June 7th, 2013. ..all entries must be submitted on our website http://www.goodwinlibrary.org/?p=525
Born:
0519
Professor John Wilson, (1785-April 3.1854) poet and miscellaneous
Blackwood's Magazine 11 (January 1822) 113.
http://www.portaltothepast.co.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3265
Johns Hopkins, (1795- – Dec 24, 1873) American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist). In 1867 he wrote his will to divide $7 million equally between a hospital and a university. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876; Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/detr:.field%28NUMBER+.band%28det+4a17080%29%29
Margaret Junkin Preson, (1820- 1890)US Author;Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War (1865)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Preston%2C%20Margaret%20Junkin%2C%201820-1897
Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (1879 – 05/02/1964) Society Figure, Women's Pioneer. An American married to British wealth and position, she became the first woman to sit in, though not the first elected to, the House of Commons http://jssgallery.org/paintings/lady_astor.htm
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 11/10/1938) Turkish military and political leader
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/kemal.html
Ho Chi Minh Nguyen Sinh Cung (1890- Sept 3, 1969) - Vietnamese statesman, Communist leader/ leader of Vietnam (1946-1969), and Confucian humanist http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hochi.htm
Mário de Sá-Carneiro 1890-April26,1916 Portuguese poet, Novelist Dispersão
http://www.citador.pt/poemas/a/mario-de-sacarneiro
Malcolm Little X (1925 – 02/21/1965) US spiritual leader
http://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X/e/B001HPC03M/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_14?qid=1368878421&sr=8-14
http://www.blackpanther.org/legacynew.htm
Elwyn Wynn Chamberlain, (1927) American artist, film maker and author
http://www.kadmospublishing.com/contents.html
Colin Chapman, (1928 – Dec 16, 1982) founder of Lotus Cars
http://colinchapmanmuseum.org.uk/Index.htm/
http://www.warwickshire7s.co.uk/caterham7.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15449235
Lorraine Hansberry (1930 – 01/12/1965) African-American playwright A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/hansberryLorraine.php
Jim James Charles Lehrer (1934- )US journalist and novelist host of the PBS show 'The News Hour'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499871/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
David Hartman 1935- TV Host GMA
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366934/
David Pownall, (1938). British novelist and playwright The Raining Tree War (1974), African Horse (1975), and Beloved Latitudes (1981), and for his play, Master Class (1984)
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsP/pownall-david.html
Nora Ephron 1941-, New Yorker director and screenwriter This is My Life (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and You've Got Mail (1998). Silkwood (1983) and When Harry Met Sally (1989)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001188/bio
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend 1945 – English singer, songwriter, guitarist (the Who)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pete-townshend-mn0000842351
from Let My Love Open the Door

When people keep repeating
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
When everything feels all over
When everybody seems unkind
I'll give you a four-leaf clover
Take all the worry out of your mind
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart I have the only key to your heart
I can stop you falling apart
Try today, you'll find this way
Come on and give me a chance to say
Let my love open the door
It's all I'm living for
Release yourself from misery
Only one thing's gonna set you free
That's my love
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/grossepointeblank/letmyloveopenthedoor.htm
AndréRené Roussimoff the Giant (1946-27-Jan-1993) French professional wrestler and actor
http://www.andrethegiant.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000764/
Dusty Hill 1949- ZZ Top bassist
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dusty-hill-mn0000133271
Joey Ramone (1952 – 04/15/2001) US singer (Ramones)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joey-ramone-mn0000173487
Grace Mendoza Jones 1952 US singer songwriter
http://www.theworldofgracejones.com/
Jodi Lynn Picoult ( 1966-) American author
http://jodipicoult.com/jodi-picoult-books.html
Passed:
0519
Josiah Bartlett, (Nov 21, 1729 –1795) American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was later Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and Governor of the state.
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/declaration/bio3.htm
James Boswell (10/29/1740 –1795) Scottish biographer
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/19/2013
John Blackwell (1797 –1840/1), bardic name Alun- Welsh language poet
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14865/14865-h/14865-h.htm
Nathaniel HawthorneJuly 4,1804-1864)American novelist and short story writer-Scarlet Letter)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm
Jose J Marti y Perez, Jan 28, 1853 –1895) Cuban national hero -a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. (Versos sencillos)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/josemart.htm
William E. Gladstone (12/29/1809 –1898) British PM (30)
http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=characters&FileName=gladstone.php
Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (Sept 26,1868-1928)American composer and collector of folk songs.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200185355/default.html
Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia(08/15/1888 –1935) Welsh/ British archeological scholar, adventurer, military strategist, and the writer of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1927),
http://www.historynet.com/te-lawrence-the-enigmatic-lawrence-of-arabia.htm
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/telawren.htm
Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869 –1946) US writer - novelist and dramatist-The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/booth.html
Ogden Nash (08/19/1902 –1971) US poet
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=755
from An ABC Of Baseball Immortals
G is for Gehrig,
The Pride of the Stadium;
His record pure gold,
His courage, pure radium.
H is for Hornsby;
When pitching to Rog,
The pitcher would pitch,
Then the pitcher would dodge.
I is for Me,
Not a hard-hitting man,
But an outstanding all-time
Incurable fan.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml
Sir John Betjeman (08/28/1906 –1984) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/betjeman-john
James Tiptree, Jr / Alice Bradley Sheldon,(Aug 24 1915- 1987) American author
http://www.julie-phillips.com/africa.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050415031819/http:/www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree/tiptree1.html
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (07/28/1929 –1994) US 1st Lady
http://www.studymode.com/essays/Jacqueline-Lee-Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis-43133.html
Sites:
http://www.weathervanetheatre.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36661/36661-h/36661-h.htm
http://www.rhino.com/
http://www.flyingmonkeynh.com/
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/mel-brooks/mel-brooks-make-a-noise/2489/
History:
0519
1863- General Ulysses S. Grant stared his siege the Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/rbpebib:.field(NUMBER+.band(rbpe+0850100a))
1960- Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
http://www.history-of-rock.com/payola.htm
1971- "Godspell" first opened at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. The musical by Stephen Schwartz is based on the New Testament Gospel of Matthew
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/songs/C6022
http://www.godspell.com/
1992- Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York
http://trueslant.com/caitlinkelly/2009/07/27/sociopaths-make-lousy-husbands-ask-mary-jo-buttafuoco/
Bonus Poem:
Late

Late have I called &
late my
beloved
was blessing me

I was covering
my breasts with my arms

"Those doves"
you said

In the sun I took my arms away

by Jean Valentine
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jean_valentine/poems

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