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Strafford Notes, July 4, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013 9:00:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Hooray for the Red, White and Blue!!!

July 4
Holiday 4th of July - INDEPENDENCE DAY
http://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-declaration-of-independence/?cmpid=INT_Outbrain_HITH_HIS&obref=obnetwork
Events:
July 4 Manchester From SlamFree OrDie on Facebook There is no reading. Our staff will be enjoying fireworks and you should too. We'll be back next week with an open mic and feature.
Last Week of July Updates:
July 25
July 25 Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )
July 25 Wolfboro, - 7-9pm – Location TBA Wolfeboro - Poets in the Attic - open mike poetsintheattic.gmail.com or 539-4472
July 26,Chichester 7:00 PM Chichester Library with featured Readers Neil English & Maren Tirabassi , Open Mic http://chichesternh.org/Public_Documents/ChichesterNH_Library/townlibrary
July 27 Manchester 11am-1pm Poetry Society of NH Quarterly Meeting - Tribute to Walter Butts by S Stephanie and PSNH members https://www.facebook.com/PoetrySocietyofNH?fref=ts
July 29: Strafford Hill Library,6:30 Poet, Musician Bob Moore Features ,Open mic,snacks & beverages director.metrocast.net

Born:
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804– 05/18/1864 American novelist and short story writer
http://www.gradesaver.com/author/hawthorne/
Stephen Collins Foster (1826- 13-Jan-1864), American song writer, composer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/foster-stephen-c
Calvin Coolidge: (1872 – 01/05/1933) US President (30)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ccoolidge.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/History/presidents/Presidents_30_Coolidge.htm
George M Cohan 1878 -November 5, 1942. US entertainer, Composer
http://www.members.tripod.com/davecol8/
Mao Tun Shen Yan-bing, Shen Dehong 1896- March 27, 1981, Chinese novelist, editor, and communist ideologue
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/maotun.htm
Neil Simon (1927- ) American playwright
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=Neil+Simon+&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNUR_enUS422US456&q=neil+simon+plays&gs_l=hp..1.0l4.0.0.0.4267...........0.SRwir_y5lO4&pbx=1
Adrienne Lewis 1973- US Poet
http://www.mayapplepress.com/BookPages/Lewis.htm
from The Divorce
I cast my writings towards people
who don’t know her son,
who don’t know my son,
who don’t know we almost had another son
sometimes I wonder if she thinks
I called out to some spirits,
asked them to take him,
and using his unborn name
bound the father
and I enjoyed it.
If only there were three of me
one for here
one for there
one for the place I want to be
with your arms wrapped around me,
lips pressing on the round bit of darkness
on my right shoulder
maybe then I could really conjure,
heal the swollen center
of my right knee, its abrasions
http://www.poemeleon.org/adrienne-lewis/
Passed:
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Thomas Middleton (04/18/1580 –1627) English writer Playwright A Game at Chess
http://thomasmiddleton.org/
John Adams (10/30/1735 –1826) US President (2), VP (1)
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnadams.html
Thomas Jefferson (04/13/1743 –1826) US President (3), VP (2)
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/facts-on-thomas-jefferson.html
James Monroe (04/28/1758 –1831) US President (5)
http://millercenter.org/president/keyevents/monroe
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 –1916) American poet who fought and died in World War I
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Seeger.html
August Derleth (February 24,1909-1971) American writer and anthologist
http://www.arkhamhouse.com/augustderleth.htm
Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008)US S/F Author & Poet
http://tomsdisch.livejournal.com/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/tom-disch

Poems
I think that I shall never read
A tree of any shape or breed -
For all its xylem and its phloem -
As fascinating as a
poem.
Trees must make themselves and so
They tend to seem a little slow
To those accustomed to the pace
Of
poems that speed through time and space
As fast as thought. We shouldn't blame
The trees, of course: we'd be the same
If we had roots instead of brains.
While trees just grow, a poem explains,
By precept and example, how
Leaves develop on the bough
And new ideas in the mind.
A sensibility refined
By reading many poems will be
More able to admire a tree
Than lumberjacks and nesting birds
Who lack a poet's way with words
And tend to look at any tree
In terms of its utility.
And so before we give our praise
To pines and oaks and laurels and bays,
We ought to celebrate the poems
That made our human hearts their homes.
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/06/poems-tom-disch.html
Sites:
http://pennyscribbles.blogspot.com/
http://www.thecrisismagazine.com/timeline.html
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm
http://www.internetmonk.com/
http://moatmountain.com/
http://www.everseradio.com/author/cynthia/
http://thebluesbroads.com/
History: 4th of July - INDEPENDENCE DAY
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1636
- City of Providence, Rhode Island form
http://www.riedc.com/data-and-publications/state-and-community-profiles/providence
1789 1st Independence Day celebration is held
http://pastparallelpaths.wordpress.com/tag/independence-day/
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moved into his Walden Pond cabin
http://www.amazon.com/Henry-David-Thoreau/e/B000AQ4HEO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
1855 - Walt Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass published
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/
1895-
1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/4/2013

1895-
Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"!
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000001/default.html

1969- 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin

http://alexcooley.com/fest-atlpop1.html

Bonus Poem:
Old Folks Laugh
They have spent their
content of simpering,
holding their lips this
and that way, winding
the lines between
their brows. Old folks
allow their bellies to jiggle like slow

tamborines.
The hollers
rise up and spill
over any way they want.
When old folks laugh, they free the world.
They turn slowly, slyly knowing
the best and the worst
of remembering.
Saliva glistens in
the corners of their mouths,
their heads wobble
on brittle necks, but
their laps
are filled with memories.
When old folks laugh, they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them.
-- Maya Angelou
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/12/old-folks-laugh-maya-angelou.html

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