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Strafford Notes, 8 September 200
Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:35:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I keep wondering who the visitor in the first poem is....

Sept 8
Events:
Sept 8th, Portsmouth. Poet Musician John Perrault ,Mike Rogers on harmonica and Barbara London on flute in an evening of ballads and poetry at West End Studio Theatre i Advance tickets are available through Act One’s web site: http://www.actonenh.org/calendar.html

Born:
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Joaquin Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837 – 02/13/1913) US poet Mount Shasta.
http://www.joaquinmiller.com/index.html
Siegfried Sassoon (1886- Sept 1, 1967. ) Eng WWI Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sassoon-siegfried
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsassoon.htm
Grace Metalious (1924 – 02/25/1964) US writer (Peyton Place)
http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-090804-metalious.html
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/03/peytonplace200603
Jack Prelutsky 1940- US Poet
http://www.jackprelutsky.com/
The Visitor
it came today to visit
and moved into the house
it was smaller than an elephant
but larger than a mouse

first it slapped my sister
then it kicked my dad
then it pushed my mother
oh! that really made me mad

it went and tickled rover
and terrified the cat
it sliced apart my necktie
and rudely crushed my hat

it smeared my head with honey
and filled the tub with rocks
and when i yelled in anger
it stole my shoes and socks

that's just the way it happened
it happened all today
before it bowed politely
and softly went away
Ann Beattie, (1947- ) US author of novels and short stories Chilly Scenes of Winter
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Ann-Beattie/1926455

Passed:
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Francis Quarles (1592 – 09/08/1644) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/quarles-francis
Bishop Joseph Hall, (07/01/1574 –1656) English bishop / author
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hall-joseph
Moondog - Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 –1999), American composer, musician, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments
http://xworldmusic.wordpress.com/tag/louis-thomas-hardin/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/moondog-mn0000496525
Lewis E. Platt (Apr 11,1941-2005) US CEO H-P
http://www.hp.com/

CEO Poem

This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or I can use it for good.
What I do today is very important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone, forever,
Leaving something in its place I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss, good, not evil,
Success, not failure, in order that I shall not
forget the price I paid for it.
-Bear Bryant
http://www.jeremyperson.com/bear-bryant-ceo-poem/
Peter Brock, (1945- 2006) – Australian race car driver
http://www.bre2.net/index.php?section=18

Sites:
http://www.fixthedebt.org/
http://www.oprah.com/index.html
http://www.thenation.com/issue/september-16-2013#
http://markmanson.net/read-faster
http://woodstockfilmfestival.com/
http://www.poetry-archive.com/i/mountain_life.html

History:
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1522- Captain Sebastian del Cano returned to Spain, completing Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/8/2013
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
http://www.nprha.org/
1900 - Galveston, TX, was hit by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep08.html
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana, "Kingfish", Huey Long, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/09/the_enduring_mystery_of_who_ki.html
1952 -Ernest Hemingway came out with his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea
http://classicliterature.net/ernest-hemingway/the-old-man-and-the-sea/
1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/
http://www.startrek.com/page/star-trek-the-original-series

Bonus Poem:

Comrades

YOU need not say one word to me, as up the hill we go
(Night-time, white-time, all in the whispering snow);
You need not say one word to me, although the whispering trees
Seem strange and old as pagan priests in swaying mysteries.
You need not think one thought of me, as up the trail we go
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(Hill-trail, still-trail, all in the hiding snow);
You need not think one thought of me, although a hare runs by,
And off behind the tumbled cairn we hear a red fox cry.
Oh, good and rare it is to feel, as through the night we go
(Wild-wise, child-wise, all in the secret snow),
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That we are free of heart and foot as hare and fox are free,
And yet that I am glad of you, and you are glad of me!

By Fannie Stearns Davis
http://www.bartleby.com/292/44.html

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