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Strafford Notes, 31 July, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:42:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

July going out the door....welcome August!!!!!

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July 31
Events: Happening Soon:
August 1 Portsmouth 1-3pm ;two-hour workshop with The Prickly Pear Poetry Project, a workshop for processing the cancer experience through poetry- designed to help those affected by cancer discover the healing power of poetry through reading and writing, an outlet that helps process emotions and provide needed clarity.South Church, 292 State St. There is no cost to attend. For more details and to reserve a spot contact Tammi (t4tu.comcast.net) or Kyle (kpotvin.splashllc.com)
Aug 2, Exeter– 7:00 pm newtime! – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, – First Friday Coffeehouse ,Open Mic followed by more open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net )

Born:
0731
Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-May 8, 1891)Russian/ British founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/blavatsky-links.htm
Sebastian S. Kresge, (1867 – 1966) American merchant and philanthropist ; Founder of KMART
YOU AND ME NEAR KMART
The sky may be letting clouds of rain and snow cross her face,
But no clouds will come, no clouds at all could blacken up my day,
The sky could be falling, the ground may disappear, but you're my one and only, you can never disappear.
You're the sweetest apple pie, you're a freshly baked cup cake,
So the clouds seem to be dimming, the whole world seems to fade,
Just you and me, near Kmart's on 50% off day.

-Lisa Lionheart
http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=59640
Brett Halliday Davis Dresser (1904-Feb4,1977) American writer - more than 60 mystery novels
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bhallida.htm
Irv Kupcinet (1912 – 11/10/2003) US writer
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/irv_kupcinet.html
Levi Primo (1919-April 11,1987) Italian-Jewish writer and chemist ; Auschwitz survivor; Se questo è un uomo (1947, If This is a Man)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/primo.htm
Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921 – 03/11/1971) US writer
http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=43988
Lynne Reid Banks ( 1929- ) English Novelist The Indian in the Cupboard
http://www.pocanticohills.org/womenenc/reid-banks.htm
Cees Nooteboom (1933- ) Dutch novelist, poet, travel-writer, and essayist Silesius Dreams
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/nooteb.htm
Kim Addie, Addonizio 1954- US poet and novelist.
http://www.kimaddonizio.com/Site/Site/bloggonizio/bloggonizio.html
Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965 – ) English writer (Harry Potter)
http://www.jkrowling.com/
Passed:
0731
Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824-71) US Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/cary-phoebe
Andrew Johnson (12/29/1808 –1875) US President (17), VP (16)
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Andrew_Johnson.htm
Francis Ledwidge (August 19 1887-1917) Irish WWI poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/ledwidge-francis
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (06/29/1900 –1944) French writer, adventurer
http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/
Jim Reeves (Aug20, 1923-1964) Country Singer/songwriter /musician; first country singers to cross-over into the pop market. with his 1960 single 'He'll Have To Go', and 1966 single 'Distant Drums'.
http://www.jim-reeves.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-reeves-mn0000903609
Earl Bud Powell ( Sept 27,1904 - 1966) Seminal bop pianist and composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bud-powell-mn0000640675
Michael Harrington (02/24/1928 –1989) US writer
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/02/obituaries/michael-harrington-socialist-and-author-is-dead.html
Poul Anderson ( Nov 25,1926 - 2001) US writer Tau Zero
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Anderson%2C+Poul&amode=words&title=&tmode=words
Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 –2007) Canadian poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-avison
The Hid, Here

Big birds fly past the window
trailing strings or vines
out in the big blue.

Big trees become designs
of delicate floral tracery
in golden green.

The Milky Way
end over end like a football
lobs, towards that still
unreachable elsewhere
that is hid within bud and nest-stuff and bright air
where the big birds flew
past the now waiting window.
http://jacketmagazine.com/29/avison.html
Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 –2010) figure in the American music industry- recording artist with an NBC television series, Sing Along with Mitch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054564/
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (Oct 2, 1925- 2012) American novelist, playwright, and essayist Visit to a Small Planet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/vidal.htm

Sites:
http://thebackroom.ticketleap.com/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/10-authors-that-could-party-way-harder-than-you
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/07/why-we-read-about-what-writers-drink/67729/
http://goodmenproject.com/
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16830
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/
http://dogtv.com/
History:
1485- William Caxton (England's first printer,) printed Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/31/2013
1786- Publication of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/burns-robert
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/KilmarnockEditionReviewsofthe.495.shtml
http://archive.org/stream/poemschieflyins01burngoog/poemschieflyins01burngoog_djvu.txt
1792 - The cornerstone of the Philadelphia U.S. Mint- first building to be used only as a U.S. government building-
was laid
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinnews/mintfacilities/phl/
1845 - The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band. The musical instrument was the invention of Adolphe Sax of Belgium.
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/sax99/history.html
1974- Patrick Francis Healy, one of the first African Americans to receive a PhD was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University- a predominantly white university
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:.field%28NUMBER+.band%28thc+5a38223%29%29
1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing.
http://www.ferrarisecretwar.com/excerpt.html
1954-An Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=210676102320184694459.0004c80fd6ef22c1b14cf
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30757/5-mountains-deadlier-everest
1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV)
http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/lrv/lrv.htm
1976 - Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" was released
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/40550/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108941/trivia
Bonus Poem:
SONNET XII Written on the Sea Shore, Oct. 1784.
ON some rude fragment of the rocky shore,
Where on the fractured cliff the billows break,
Musing, my solitary seat I take,
And listen to the deep and solemn roar.
O'er the dark waves the winds tempestuous howl;
The screaming sea-bird quits the troubled sea:
But the wild gloomy scene has charms for me,
And suits the mournful temper of my soul.
Already shipwreck'd by the storms of Fate,
Like the poor mariner methinks I stand,
Cast on a rock; who sees the distant land
From whence no succour comes--or comes too late.
Faint and more faint are heard his feeble cries,
Till in the rising tide the exhausted sufferer dies.
Charlotte Turner Smith, 1749-1806
http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/SmitCElegi.htm#p6

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