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Strafford Notes, 20 June, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:13:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

If you can make it to the Effingham Public Library tonight, feature folksinger Bill Staines is definately worth hearing

June 20
Events:
June 20 Portsmouth - - 7-9pm – Press Room, – Beat Night – Featured Readers: Bruce ain’t tellin’Accompanied by Beat Night Band- Scip Gallant | keyboards,Scott Solsky | guitar,Chris Stambaugh | bass,Mike Barron | drums,Frank Laurino | percussion ,Cynthia Chatis | flutes;- (followed by the open mic with Heather Elisabeth (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )
June 20 Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Tricia Pryce Henley ! Features with an open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )
June 20, Effingham 7pm Writers' Night at Effingham Public Library features Singer Songwriter Legend Bill Staines followed by Open Mic opportunity for writers /musicians (5 min. limit). . Light Refreshments. The Library is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham. Contact: Katie McCarthy 539-7694 (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com )
June 20 Manchester Shaskeen Pub Opens 8:30 Free 21+ 909 Elm St music Jonee Earthquake Band, The Caught Flies & A Minor Revolution...likely there's more...a poet here and there

Born:
0620
Nicholas Rowe, (1674-6-Dec-1718) English dramatist and poet laureate Editor of William Shakespeare
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16275/16275-h/16275-h.htm
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743 – 03/09/1825) English writer, poet, and editorfrom Eighteen Hundred And Eleven.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/barbauld-anna-l%C3%A6titia
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Barbauld%2C%20Mrs.%20(Anna%20Letitia)%2C%201743-1825

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barbauld/works/bal-life.html
Charles W[addell] Chesnutt (1858-11/15/1932), African-American novelist The Conjure Woman
http://www.online-literature.com/charles-chesnutt/
Lillian Hellman (1905 – 06/30/1984) US writer / playwright Little Foxes
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lhellman.htm
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc55.html
Errol Flynn (1909 – 10/14/1959) US actor Robin Hood
http://www.inlikeflynn.com/
DeForest Kelley (1920- June 11,1999,) US actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001420/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Audie Murphy (1924-May 28,1971) WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001559/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Chet Atkins (1924 – 06/30/2001) US guitarist, singer, producer (Me & My Guitar)
http://www.misterguitar.us/

Olympia Dukakis 1931-US Actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001156/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Dan Greenburg (1936 – ) US writer
http://www.dangreenburg.com/
Brian Wilson 1942 US singer (Beachboys-In My Room)
http://www.brianwilson.com/
Paul Muldoon, 1951- Irish poet Moy Sand and Gravel
http://www.paulmuldoon.net/
The Avenue
Now that we've come to the end
I've been trying to piece it together,
Not that distance makes anything clearer.
It began in the half-light
While we walked through the dawn chorus
After a party that lasted all night,
With the blackbird, the wood-pigeon,
The song-thrush taking a bludgeon
To a snail, our taking each other's hand
As if the whole world lay before us.
http://www.sohel.net/2004/09/tell-14-poems-of-paul-muldoon.html

Vikram Seth (1952-) Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer & memoirist.It's the birthday of poet Paul Muldoon (books by this author), born in Portadown, Northern Ireland (1951). He said of his childhood: "The place was County Armad, about halfway across northern Ireland, an apple growing district where some of the people who had been planted there in the Elizabethan era had come from Warwickshire and brought with them their apple plants, but also much of the language, which William Shakespeare was using and which was fossilized where I was brought up." He published his first book, New Weather (1973), when he was 21 years old, and he has published more than 30 collections since then. His most recent book is Maggot (2010). (less)
http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=40714
John Goodman (1952 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Nicole Kidman (1967 – ) Australian actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000173/
Passed:
0620
James Clarence Mangan 1-May-1803 -1849 Irish Poet O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire Shapes and Signs
http://www.bartleby.com/250/106.html
from “The Nameless One “
And he fell far through that pit abysmal,

The gulf and grave of Maginn and Burns,

And pawn'd his soul for the devil's dismal

Stock of returns.
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But yet redeem'd it in days of darkness,

And shapes and signs of the final wrath,

When death, in hideous and ghastly starkness,

Stood on his path.

And tell how now, amid wreck and sorrow,
45
And want, and sickness, and houseless nights,

He bides in calmness the silent morrow,

That no ray lights.

And lives he still, then? Yes! Old and hoary

At thirty-nine, from despair and woe,
50
He lives, enduring what future story

Will never know.
http://www.bartleby.com/101/665.html
Jules-Alfred Hout de Goncourt (12/17/1830 –1870) French writer,
http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/goncourtj.htm
Herbert Bayard Swope (01/05/1882 –1958) US journalist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAswope.htm
Bernard M. Baruch (08/19/1870 –1965) US economist /Coined the term Cold War
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/baruch.html
Georges LemaŒtre, (1894 -1966) originator of "big bang" theory
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_lemaitre.html
Clifton Fadiman (05/15/1904 –1999) US writer, radio host
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264935/
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtfad3.html
Larry Collins (Sep 14,1929-2005 ) Author Is Paris Burning?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172468/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2

Sites:
http://www.nh.gov/nharts/
http://cbhd.org/
http://www.laconialibrary.org/
http://www.authorsden.com
http://www.commonground.org/
http://www.rira.com/portsmouth/
http://www.goodwinlibrary.org/
History:
0620
AD 451 -The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of Châlons sur Marne, took place between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila.
http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/battles/chalons.html

1972- The Tallahatchie bridge in Sidon, MS, made famous by Bobbie Gentry's hit "Ode To Billie Joe," collapses
http://www.deadohio.com/CrybabyBridges.htm
http://www.filibustercartoons.com/billyjoe.htm

Bonus Poem:

Sometimes
Some nights are magic nights,
Before you go to bed,
You hear the darling music
Go chiming in your head;
You look into the garden,
And through the misty grey
You see the trees all waiting
In a breathless kind of way.
All the stars are smiling;
They know that very soon
The fairies will come singing
From the land behind the moon.
If only you could keep awake
When Nurse puts out the light . . .
Anything might happen
On a truly magic night.
by Rose Fyleman

http://www.amblesideonline.org/Year1poems.shtml#apr15

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