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Strafford Notes, 27 May, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013 10:33:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Remember those toady whose sacrifice has enabled us to be able t read and write what we see fit.

May 27
Events:
More from the first week of June:
June 6 Rochester 1st thurs of month– Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the feature starts at 6:15 p.m. – Portable Pantry , Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. Pat O’Brien, 866-6034
June 7 Exeter 1st Friday of the month – 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Features followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net)
6/8 Strafford Bow Lake Grange Hall, Ed Gerhard in Concert---Ed's Annual Concert to Benefit the Grange Water St/Province Rd Strafford, NH 8pm (603) 664-7200 http://www.virtuerecords.com/
Born:
0527
Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 10/17/1910) US writer (wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
http://www.juliawardhowe.org/
John Kendrick Bangs (1862 – Jan 21, 1922) American author, editor and satirist
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-kendrick-bangs/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2618/2618-h/2618-h.htm
http://archive.org/stream/enchantedtypewr00banggoog/enchantedtypewr00banggoog_djvu.txt
Arnold Bennett (1867 – 05/27/1931) English writer
http://www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk/
Max Brod (1884 – Dec 20, 1968) Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. - famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/judith-butler/who-owns-kafka
http://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/01/weird-tales-from-austria-and-bohemia.html
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 01/10/1961) US writer -Sam Spade
http://www.mysterynet.com/hammett/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/dhammett.htm
http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=V6E3QKZJ
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358591/
Rachel Carson (1907 – 04/14/1964) US writer, conservationist (Silent Spring)
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/27/2013
Vincent Price (1911 – 10/25/1993) US actor
http://www.vincentprice.org/
John Cheever (1912 – 06/18/1982) US writer The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154940/
Herman Wouk (1915 – ) US writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wouk.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941883/
Christopher Lee (1922 – ) English actor The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (as Saruman the White) and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (as Count Dooku).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/
Tony Hillerman (1925 – Oct 26, 2008) American author of detective novels and non-fiction works - Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels
http://www.umsl.edu/~smueller/
http://legacy.suntimes.com/obituaries/chicagosuntimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=119429003#fbLoggedOut
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384917/
John Barth (1930 – ) US writer
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/barth.htm
Arnold Bennett (1867 – 05/27/1931) English writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jbennett.htm
Carol Frost (1902 –Oct 9,1940 )Son of Robert Frost
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27886865
Harlan Ellison (1934 – ) US writer
http://www.gotpoetry.com/Poems/new/l_op=viewpoems/lid=68720.html
http://www.harlanellison.com/bibliography.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255196/
Bruce Cockburn (1945 – ) Canadian singer/songwriter
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bruce-cockburn-mn0000631579
Gifts
Silver rain sings dancing rhyme
sulight on blue water
rocky shore grown soft with moss
catches all our laughter
and it sends it back without its edge
to strengthen us anew
that we may walk within these walls
and share our gifts with you
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/cockburn-bruce/gifts-32377.html

Passed:
0527

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1786-1887) US Author Bullfinch's Mythology
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6691348
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Bulfinch%2C%20Thomas
http://www.online-literature.com/bulfinch/
Richard Bruce Nugent ( July 2,1906-1987 ) Harlem Renaissance writer(poems, plays, and stories)
http://www.brucenugent.com/Writings%20Frameset.htm
Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky (June 25 1907- 1989, Moscow) Soviet poet and translator
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8593523-Life__Life-by-Arseny_Tarkovsky
Alice Adams (Aug 14, 1926-1999) US Novelist Superior Women 1984
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1419295/
http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Adams/e/B000AP9GNW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Gilbert Scott-Heron (April1,1949-2011) US Poet, pundit, and activist, novelist The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63083.shtml
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gil-scott-heron-mn0000658346
Charles W. Pratt (Jun. 1, 1935 - 2012 ) NH Teacher/poet/ Apple Annie Farmer
http://exeter.patch.com/articles/charles-w-pratt-apple-annie-farmer-and-poet-dies-at-76
http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2013/02/06/sections/memorials/3241/index.xml

Prayer for the Small Engine Repairman

Our Sundays are given voice
By the small engine repairman,
Whose fingers, stubby and black,
Know our mowers and tractors,
Chainsaws, rototillers,
Each plug, gasket and valve
And all the vital fluids.
Thanks to him our lawns
Are even, our gardens vibrant,
Our maples pruned for swings,
The underbrush whacked away.
"What's broke can always be fixed
If I can find the parts,"
He says as he loosens a nut,
Exposes the carburetor,
Tinkers and tunes until
To the slightest pull on the cord
The engine at once concurs.
Let him come into our homes,
Let him discipline our children,
Console and counsel our mates,
Adjust the gap of our passions,
The mix of our humors: lay hands
On the small engine of our days.

"Prayer for the Small Engine Repairman" by Charles W. Pratt, from From the Box Marked Some are Missing: New and Selected Books. © Hobblebush Books, 2010.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php?auth_id=2614

Sites:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151524498789003.1073741833.44115954002&type=3
http://www.virtuerecords.com/
http://bipartisanpolicy.org/
http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/indy500/
https://plus.google.com/103404025783539237119/posts/T5vXKd1N819
http://www.gilfordlibrary.org/gpl/index.asp
http://www.royalforestofdean.info/famous-people.shtml#wilfred_gibson
History:
0527
1922 - the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated on the Mall in the nation's capitol
http://awesometalks.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-lincoln-memorial-construction-dedication-photographs/

1927
- Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile
- http://www.mtfca.com/discus/
1979
- Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_Yw2T3YUI

Bonus Poem:
From AN ELEGY

To the adorable little girl
fixed in the remoteness of the photo,
who at eight already seemed
larger than life: I miss you,
although I did not know you. That was before
you gave me life
in a barely natural size.

All the same,
an elegy.

And to the other one of the photo that I hope
to conserve, the beautiful woman who holds
the book before her daughter aged one year
in the sham of reading:
I love you for what lasts, and it is sufficient
to read in the present, although your star’s
gone out.

For her,
an elegy.

Now I am the photograph
and you the developing fluid. Your death
turns me into myself: like an applied science,
I am cause and effect,
trial and error, this void
of nothingness that beats against the heart
like an empty husk.
Mirta Rosenberg© Translation: 2008, Julie Ward
From: El arte de peder © 1988 Publisher: Bajo la luna nueva, Buenos Aires, 1988
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/11627

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