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Strafford Notes, 24 May, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013 9:56:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Please note: if you were intending to go to Goffstown tonight, better not. The open mike at Apotheca has been cancelled for this month only due to the Memorial Day holiday.

May 24
Events:
May 24, Portsmouth South Church ; NH’s Poet Charles Simic celebrating the recent recent release of his book, New and Selected Poems: 1962 - 2012 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT) $5.00 Ticket The $5 ticket can be redeemed for $5 in credit toward the purchase of one of Mr. Simic's books. (One ticket per book, please.) We hand out the tickets the night of the event, when you check in at the door.If you would like to avoid the fees, you can also purchase tickets by calling RiverRun Bookstore at 603-431-2100. http://riverrunpresentscharlessimic.eventbrite.com/#
May 24 Exeter Arts on Elm Street {First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter12 Elm Street Exeter, NH} presents! at 7:30 PM A night of classical guitar music featuring Scott Ouellette and Darragh O’Neill Suggested donation for the guitar concert $16 in advance, $18 at the door. Unemployed? $8 in advance. $10 at the door. Tickets available at Exeter Music and Water Street Bookstore. For more information: bmoore628.comcast.net or phone: 603-642-4648.
May 24,Goffstown open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in the village area of Goffstown. http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/ http://www.apothecaonline.com/
Born:
0524
Victoria Alexandrine (1819 – 01/22/1901) Queen of England (1837-1901)
http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 – 11/23/1934) English playwright
http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U215544/Sir_Arthur_Wing_Pinero?&p=bdayAa2FadyNpriI6&d=U215544
Benjamin Cardozo (1870 – 07/09/1938) US Supreme Court
http://www.ssa.gov/history/cardozo.htm
Helen Brooke Taussig (1898 - May 20, 1986) American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot (also known as blue baby syndrome).
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10372821
Henri Michaux (1899- Oct 17,1984 ) Belgian-born French painter, journalist, and poet,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hmichaux.htm
Mikhail Sholokhov( 1905-Jan 21,1984) Russian writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965 And Quiet Flows the Don (1928-40),
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/solohov.htm
William Trevor Cox (1928- ) Irish novelist The Old Boys 1964
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/william-trevor/
Joseph Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky (1940 – 01/28/1996) Russian-American poet; Nobel Prize in 1987 ; American Poet Laureate in 1991. Seaward
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~safonov/brodsky/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/4
Robert Bob Zimmerman Dylan (1941 – ) US singer/songwriter
http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home
from Blowing In the Wind

How many roads must a man walk down,
before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove fly,
before she sleeps in the sand?
And how many times must a cannon ball fly,
before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist,
before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
And how many times can a man turn his head,
and pretend that he just doesn't see?

How many times must a man look up,
before he sees the sky?
And how many ears must one man have,
before he can hear people cry ?
And how many deaths will it take till we know,
that too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

http://www.lyrics007.com/Bob%20Dylan%20Lyrics/Blowing%20In%20The%20Wind%20Lyrics.html

Patti LaBelle 1944- US singer Lady Marmalade
http://www.pattilabelle.com/
Michael Chabon (1963- ) US Novelist novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), Wonder Boys (1995), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Chabon/e/B00456TWZY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1369336071&sr=8-1
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149290/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/michael_chabon/search?contributorName=michael%20chabon

Passed:
0524
Nicholas Copernicus (02/19/1473-1543) Polish astronomer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/copernic.htm
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (Jan 12,1751-1792 ) German/Russian poet Sturm und Drang movement
http://www.uni-due.de/literaturwissenschaft-aktiv/Vorlesungen/dramatik/lenz.htm
Juan Meléndez Valdés (March 11, 1754- 1817) Spanish lawyer/poet
http://www.poemas-del-alma.com/juan-melendez-valdes.htm
William Lloyd Garrison (12/10/1805 –1879) US writer
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Garrison%2C%20William%20Lloyd%2C%201805-1879
William Hamilton (1891-1917) Scot Poet
From The Song of an Exile
13 I have visited your cities
14 Where the unregenerate dwell;
15 I have trilled the ploughman's ditties
16 To the mill-wheel and the well.
17 I have heard the poised lark's singing
18 To the blue of summer skies;
19 The whirr of pheasants winging,
20 And the crash when grouse arise.
21But I sigh for the heat of the veldt, and the cool-flowing river;
22For the crack of the trek-whip, the shimmer of dust-laden noon;
23For the day sudden dying; the croak of the frogs, and the shiver
24Of tropical night, and the stars, and the low hanging moon.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hamilton-william
Duke Ellington (04/29/1899 –1974) US composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/duke-ellington-mn0000120323
John Barrington Wain (14 March 1925 –1994) English poet, novelist, and critic,
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-27/news/mn-62712_1_samuel-johnson
Dick Martin (01/30/1928 –2008) US writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552189/
Sites:
http://unusuallife.com/
http://www.meetup.com/The-Write-Publish-and-Promote-Network/events/118871002/?_af_eid=118871002&a=uc1_te&_af=event
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/blog/
http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2013-spring/selections/shelley-puhak-763879/
http://www.hillstead.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/506056272786669
History:
0524
1626- Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from the Lenape Indians.
http://www.bigorrin.org/lenape_kids.htm
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley
1844- Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/_/viewer.aspx?path=b%2Fbd%2F&name=Samuel_Morse_plaque.jpg
http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=306
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1862 - Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1883- the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/
1916 - US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/aeronautics/1918-210.aspx
1930 - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/longest_standing_records.jsp
1951- Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Works was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/24/2013
1976 - 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
http://www.concorde-art-world.com/html/record_breaker.html
1981 - Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/51468/
1987 - Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/51460/
1992 - Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/history/50820/

Bonus Poem:
A BELL IN THE WIND

THE sun goes out, and leaves
To the young dusk a cry,
The cry of one who grieves
And is like to die.
There the old houses stand
Down the sunken road;
It clutches them like hand
At throat; it drives like goad.
Along the salmon dusk
A hundred hurts of life;
Around and through it all,
The smell of the wild musk
Is sharp as any knife.
-Lizette Woodworth Reese
From Wild Cherry
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAE8957.0001.001/1:49?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

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