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Strafford Notes, 17 August, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013 11:19:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Really, really nice day....hope for many a more...

August 17
Events:
Aug 17,2013 Dunbarnton The Spireside Coffee House and OpenMic; Bob Moore (solo and also plays with the Sylvan Rootshttp://www.myspace.com/robertmoore/photos Come and enjoy the show as we serve delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. www.dccucc.org Lizz.dccucc.org
Aug 17th, Effingham NH, 7PM; Pat O’Brien in concert at Lord”s Hill Meeting House http://www.patobriensongsandstories.com/p/upcoming-events.html
Aug 15-18 at 2pm on the Sandwich Fairgrounds Stage - See more at: http://artstamworth.org/category/advicetotheplayersdotorg/#sthash.SjXqsdhn.dpuf
http://artstamworth.org/category/advicetotheplayersdotorg/ Rebecca Boyden Executive Director Advice To The Players P.O. Box 14, North Sandwich, NH 03259 603-986-6253 www.AdviceToThePlayers.org
Born:
0817
Davy Crockett (1786 – 03/06/1836) US explorer, politician
http://davycrockettfacts.com/
William Knox (1789- Nov 12, 1825) Eng Poet/Journalist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/knox-william
Miss C.L.F., Charlotte Lottie Forten (1837/1838?-1914) African-American diarist, poet, and essayist
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Grimke__Charlotte_Forten.html
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-Sept 10, 1922) Eng Victorian Poet/ Writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/blunt-wilfrid-scawen
Alexander MacGregor Rose (1846- May 10, 1898 ) Scot/Amer/Can Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/rose-alexander-macgregor
Gene Stratton Porter (1863-Dec.6,1924 ) American feminist, novelist photographer Her Father's Daughter (1921)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/stratton.htm
Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878 – 09/22/1957) Irish writer Earth and Sea
http://www.ria.ie/research/dib/bloomsday.aspx
Marcus [Moziah] Garvey [Jr.] (1887-06/10/1940), Jamaican essayist, editor, journalist, and poet
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAgarvey.htm
from Those Who Know
The failing men you meet each day,
Who curse their fate, and damn the rest,
Are just the sleeping ones who play
While others work to reach the best.
All life must be a useful plan,
That calls for daily, serious work-
The work that wrings the best from man-
The work that cowards often shirk.
All honour to the men who know,
By seeking after Nature’s truths:
In wisdom they shall ever grow,
While others hum the awful “blues”
Go now and search for what there is-
The knowledge of the Universe-
Make it yours, as the other, his,
And be as good, but not the worse.
http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/poem-those-who-know-by-marcus-garvey/
Mae West (1893 – Nov 22, 1980) American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol
http://allaboutmae.com/
John Hawkes (1925-98 ) US poet, playwright, and writer of avant garde novels
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/john-hawkes/
Lauri Viita ( 1916- 1965) Finnish Poet and novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lviita.htm
[Edward James] Ted Hughes (1930 – 10/28/1998) English poet laureate writer
http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Hughes/e/B000AQ4JQ0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1376732038&sr=8-1
V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul (1932- ) British/ Caribbean ,novelist and essayist ;Nobel Prize in literature 2001 A House for Mr. Biswas
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/vnaipaul.htm
Patricia Grace (1937- ) New Zealand writer of novels, short-stories, and children's books
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/grace.htm
Herta Müller (1943- ) German novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hmuller.htm
Passed:
0817
Conrad Aiken ( Aug 5 1889-1973 ) American poet
From Sonata in Pathos
You are like music, forever moving and changing,
32Forever weaving a lovelier melody ...
33You are like music, weaving and interweaving;
34You plead and sing, but will not wait for me.
35I have touched the moonlight whiteness of your hands,
36I have walked with you by the moonlight sea,
37We have sat and watched the waves slide up white sands,
38The waves that whispered at you and me;
39And the dark hair, the blue-black hair like midnight,
40And the soft bright golden hair,
41And the hair that ripples like sun on moving water,
42And the hair that is lighter than melody on soft air,
43I have known and touched them all, I have loved them all,
44I have played a ghostly music upon them,
45I have played a starlight magic upon them, and held them, and let them fall.
46You, the white-breasted one who danced before me,
47Bearing narcissus in your hands;
48You with the mouth like jasper, you with the feet like snow ...
49I have loved you all, I have loved you long ago,
50But you have faded before me, and left me nothing,
51And the caress of hands, the lips, the sighs,
52The starless night of darkened eyes,
53White throats that filled with laughter, -

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/aiken-conrad
Ira Gershwin (12/06/1896 –1983) US lyricist (brother of George)
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C72

Sites:
http://conradprojects.com/about-chain-reaction/
http://www.mackinacparks.com/
http://vimeo.com/37176398
http://www.quebecmusts.com/
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/lynx.html
http://www.healthypawspetinsurance.com/
History:
0817
1790- At Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington Washington spoke of his belief in religious freedom and the first presidential affirmation of the free and equal status of Jewish-American citizens
http://nobigotry.facinghistory.org/content/story-behind-washingtons-letter
1917-while convalescing at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen meet
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/siegfried_sassoon.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wlfred_owen.htm
1933- Dylan Thomas composes ‘The Hand that Signed the Paper’
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/hand-signed-paper
1945- George Orwell's Animal Farm is published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/17/2013
1955- Elvis Presley released his first number 1 hit, 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget / Mystery Train'.
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/I-Forgot-to-Remember-to-Forget-lyrics-Elvis-Presley/D7184E1975B56B52482568740032A540
1969- The final day of the three day Woodstock festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm
http://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/2009/07/forty-years-later-max-yasgurs-farm-is-a-ripoff-of-woodstock-culture-.html

Bonus Poem:
SongTop of Form
Bottom of Form
1She sat and sang alway
2 By the green margin of a stream,
3Watching the fishes leap and play
4 Beneath the glad sunbeam.
5I sat and wept alway
6 Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
7Watching the blossoms of the May
8 Weep leaves into the stream.
9I wept for memory;
10 She sang for hope that is so fair:
11My tears were swallowed by the sea;
12 Her songs died on the air.
Christina Rossetti

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