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Strafford Notes, 3 Ocvtober 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:52:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Seee you tonight at the portable pantry!!!!

October 3
Events:
Oct 3 Concord - New Hampshire Writers Project-(Hall-Kenyon Award) Billy Collins
–at the Concord City Auditorium.7:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET $10.00
https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/nhwp/eventRegistration.jsp?event=102
Oct 3 Rochester Portable Pantry on Hanson St. Rochester Writer’s Night Featuring Poet John Simon Sign-ups begin at 6 pm- ending by 8 ; followed by our feature performer. After a short break, the open mic portion of the program begins. Writers are encouraged to perform their original poetry, prose or music to a listening audience. There is a 5 minute limit per participant, with extra rounds if time allows. http://www.portablepantrynh.com/
Oct 3, Portsmouth: Bill Bryson will discuss his new book, One Summer: America, 1927, as part of Writers on a New England Stage. Tickets are $13 each and may be purchased through the
Music Hall. At 7:30 p.m., Historic Theater, http://www.themusichall.org/
Oct 3 Manchester Slamfreeordie Milley’s featuring Emily O'Neill & SLAM #3! and an open mic or two -/; Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , facebook.com/slamfreeordie )
Born:
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Fulke Greville (1554 – 09/30/1628) English writer- poet and statesman Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/greville-baron-brooke-fulke
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ([O.S. October 3] 1814 – [O.S. July 15] 1841), Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter
THE PRINCESS OF THE TIDE
One day swimming his horse was a prince by the sea
When he heard a voice cry: “Over here! Look at me!”
The steed started and snorted, but ‘twas nothing to him
He shook off a spray and continued to swim.
Said the voice: “I am born to the King of the Tide”
“Wilt thou one lordly night in my sweet arms abide?”
And behold! From the wake, there a hand did emerge
Reaching out for the bridle of silk on the surge.
A young, pretty head did the brine then reveal
With long braided hair draped in sea-grass of bright teal.
Two dark blue eyes burned with passion’s pure fire
Sea foam rolled on her cheeks like white pearls of desire.
Thought the prince: “For this moment I surely was made . . .”
And he deftly reached out to catch hold of a braid.
He caught her and held her with a warrior’s arm
She splashed and she struggled with panicked alarm
Heedless he dragged her up onto the shore
Then his shouts to his comrades did loudly outpour
“Fellows! Come and see! I am calling to you!”
“Look what I have fished out of bottomless blue!”
“What are you waiting for! Do not delay!”
“You’ve not seen such beauty in many a day!”
And then he turned back to look down on his prize
But alas! The fire was already leaving her eyes!
For there lying limp on the hot golden sand
Was her green tail, like a fish, out of place on the land
It was covered in scales like that of a snake
Already coiling and drying as the sun did it bake
Sweat streamed from her brow presaging her doom
And her eyes quickly darkened with ominous gloom
Her poor hands grew pale as she clutched at the sand
Her lips whispered something he could not understand
The prince walked away for he could not abide:
Would he ever forget the princess of the tide?
--translated from the Russian by Andrew C. Miller
http://www.bibliomania.com/1/7/291/2019/frameset.html
T. Thomas Fortune (1856 – 06/02/1928) US writer
https://www.facebook.com/ThomasFortuneHouse
Emily Post, (1873- ). US writer - novelist, etiquette expert- Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home 1922.
http://www.bartleby.com/95/
Louis Aragon (1897 – 12/24/1982) French writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/aragon.htm
Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 09/15/1938) US writer - autobiographical novels, including Look Homeward Angel (1929). After his sudden death, the editor went through the writings and created two novels, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940).
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Wolfe/e/B000AP62F2/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1380792570&sr=8-2-ent
Johnny Burke (1908 – 02/25/1964) US songwriter Swinging on a Star
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C81
James Herriot, James Alfred Wight, (1916). Brit Veterinarian wrote If Only They Could Talk (1970) All Creatures Great and Small, 1972 It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972)- these two works were published together in the United States as All Creatures Great and Small (1972).
http://www.worldofjamesherriot.org/
Eugene Gore Luther Vidal (1925 – ) US writer - novels,- Washington, D.C. (1967) and Duluth: A Novel (1983). His essays -United States: Essays, 1952-1992 (1992)
http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/vidal.htm
Eddie Cochran (1938-April 17, 1960) Musician Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZD8ckwLJA
John Perry Barlow (1947 – ) US lyricist
http://www3.clearlight.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~acsa/findbarl.pl
Lindsey Buckingham (1949- ) Musician- Fleetwood Mac(1987 single 'Little Lies' and 1977 US No.1 single 'Dreams' from world wide No.1 album 'Rumours').
http://lindseybuckingham.com/
Reverend Al Sharpton (1954 – ) US religious/political leader
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954 – 08/27/1990) US musician - 1991, Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed October 3, (Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday), to be "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day". An annual motorcycle ride and concert in Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stevie-ray-vaughan-mn0000625739

Passed:
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Francis of Assisi (09/26/1181 –1226) Umbrian saint
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/
William Morris (03/24/1834 –/1896) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/morris-william
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=10/3/2013
Edgar Watson Howe (05/03/1853 –1937) US writer
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_man_who_can_keep_a_secret_may_be_wise-but_he/161441.html
Woody Guthrie (07/14/1912 –1967) US singer, songwriter
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/woody-guthrie/aint-got-no-home/623/
http://www.thenation.com/blog/168874/top-ten-woody-guthrie-songs
from I Ain’t Got No Home (In This World Anymore)
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' 'round,
Just a wandrin' worker, I go from town to town.
And the police make it hard wherever I may go
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been working, mister, since the day I was born
Now I worry all the time like I never did before
'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore
Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see
This world is such a great and a funny place to be;
Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

Read more: Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home Lyrics | MetroLyrics
http://www.metrolyrics.com/i-aint-got-no-home-lyrics-woody-guthrie.html

Sites:
http://www.thedockchurch.org/
http://www.newpages.com/blogs/writers-blogs.htm
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/7-gadget-predictions-sci-fi-authors-got-right?click=main_sr#slide-1
http://americamagazine.org/pope-interview
http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/tartarus/welcome.htm
http://www.johnperrault.com/

History: http://www.loc.gov/home2/shutdown-message.html

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1902- President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coalfield operators from the anthracite coalfields in Pennsylvania in an attempt to settle a strike
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/toonsbytopiccoalstrike.html
1990 - reunification of East and West Germany- divided since the end of World War Two
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1871
1992- Sinead O'Connor ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, on the US TV show 'Saturday Night Live', in a protest at abortion laws
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127956314
Bonus Poem:
From The Inventor’s Wife Smokes her First Cigarette

The inventor’s wife
buys artisan ashtrays
secondhand. Her husband
does not smoke.
But she stands outside
of the lab, watching
the sunset measure
dinner growing cold,
waiting for some other
kind of bus, chain smoking.

Hillary Kobernick

http://hillarykobernickpoetry.tumblr.com/poems

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