FOUR EVENTS:   Tuftonboro, Dec 4th at 7:30 pm A CELTIC CHRISTMAS CONCERT at the OLD WHITE CHURCH, Tuftonboro RÉAGÁNTA (Claudia Altemus on whistle, Gene Durkee on guitar, Regina Delany on Harp) Along with the  New England Irish Harp Orchestra  Tickets  $15.00  For reservations and information contact: Greg or Teri Heppe 569-9859, hepx216.yahoo.com   12/5   2:30PM   DelRossi's, Dublin, NH   Special reading from Milton's "Paradise Lost" with the Milton Ensemble mailto: rodgerwriter.myfairpoint.net     BIRTHDAYS: December 4th Jean Chapelain, French writer 1595 - 1674) http://www.jstor.org/pss/4172472 Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist 1713 - 1786) http://www.cafeintermezzo.com/ Dr. John Kitto, Biblical illustrator, 1804, http://pleasantplaces.biz/authors/kitto_j.php Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 02/05/1881)  English/ Scottish essayist and historian  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/55.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-carlyle/ Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief 1840 - 1877) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm Samuel Butler (1875 – 06/18/1902) English writer http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1906/1906-h/1906-h.htm Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 12/29/1926) German poet http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rmrilke.htm http://picture-poems.com/rilke/ Wassily [Vassily V] Kandinsky  (1866 – 12/13/1944)  Russ/ abstract artist painter, writer, and art theorist               http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kandinsk.htm http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kandinsky_wassily.html Richard N Roland Holst, 1868 - Dutch artist/painter http://www.artnet.com/artist/555647/richard-nicolaas-roland-holst.html Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) English poet, critic, and prolific essayist, a philosophical anarchist and outspoken pacifist    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hread.htm    http://www.world-war-pictures.com/herbert-edward-read-war-poet.htm A Song for the Spanish Anarchists The golden lemon is not made but grows on a green tree: A strong man and his crystal eyes is a man born free. The oxen pass under the yoke and the blind are led at will: But a man born free has a path of his own and a house on the hill And man are men who till the land and women are women who weave: Fifty men own the lemon grove and no man is a slave. http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Sir_Herbert_Read Alfred Leslie Rowse, 1903 – historian http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/R/alfred-leslie-rowse.asp John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], 1912 -  US, sci-fi author http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/ian-wallace/ Pappy Boyington, American pilot 1912 – 1988 http://www.acepilots.com/usmc_boyington3.html Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (1916 - 1994) http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1994/06/13/1994_06_13_011_TNY_CARDS_000367957 Cornell Woolrich 1903- 1968  'Father of Film Noir,' author http://www.nndb.com/people/622/000092346/ John Cale  (12/04/1940 – )  US singer, songwriter http://www.xs4all.nl/~werksman/cale/ Chris Shepherd, 1966 -  English film director http://www.shepherdpics.com/     PASSED December 4th Omar Khayyam  (05/18/1048 –1131[1123?])   Persian writer, poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher     http://www.okonlife.com/ Thomas Hobbes, (04/05/1588 –1679)  English philosopher, scholar  http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/hobbes.htm Alexander Hume (1609) Scottish poet http://www.archive.org/stream/poemsalexanderh01humegoog/poemsalexanderh01humegoog_djvu.txt  William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet 1585- 1649 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/105.html John Gay, (06/30/1685 –1732)  English writer poet and dramatist, http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/132.html http://www.bartleby.com/100/231.html Robert Louis Stevenson (1894) Brit poet,Novelist I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT I KNOW not how, but as I count The beads of former years, Old laughter catches in my throat With the very feel of tears.   http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/441/pg441.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/312.html Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), 1933                                        You Like a Flame   You like a flame are pure and slender You like the morning light and dear You blooming branch of the tree of splendor You like a spring concealed and clear You see me off through sunny meadows You thrill me in the plumes of dusk You light my path among the shadows You cooling wind you warming musk You are my wish and why I think I breathe you in with all my air I sip you in with all I drink I kiss your fragrance everywhere You blooming branch of the tree of splendor You like a spring concealed and clear You like a flame are pure and slender You like the morning light and dear http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/11/stefan-george-you-like-flame-from.html    Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer 1891- 1956 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rodchenko_alexander.html Benjamin Britten  (11/22/1913 –1976)  English composer http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Britten/ Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, 1986 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nakian_reuben.html Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), 1987 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541149/ May Swenson (05/28/1919 –1989)  US writer http://www.queertheory.com/histories/s/swenson_may.htm Frank Zappa  (12/21/1940 –1993)  US musician, composer http://www.nndb.com/people/737/000024665/ Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), 1993 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19385168 Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author 1924- 2005 http://www.nndb.com/people/136/000114791/ Gregg Hoffman, American film producer 1963- 2005 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388898/   SITES:   http://www.independencemuseum.org/ http://www.mit.edu/~mi22295/elections.html#1932 http://www.newadvent.org/ http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/index.html http://www.lib-art.com/ http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2010/sitting-bull/     HISTORY:   1783 - Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC http://frauncestavern.com/news/ 1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. http://discoverlosangeles.com/guides/fun-facts/historical-timeline.html 1942 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration http://www.wpamurals.com/timeline.pdf 1970 - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8% http://www.miseryindex.us/URbymonth.asp BONUS POEM: When Cold December WHEN cold December Froze to grisamber The jangling bells on the sweet rose-trees-- Then fading slow And furred is the snow As the almond's sweet husk-- And smelling like musk. The snow amygdaline Under the eglantine Where the bristling stars shine Like a gilt porcupine-- The snow confesses The little Princesses On their small chioppines Dance under the orpines. See the casuistries Of their slant fluttering eyes-- Gilt as the zodiac (Dancing Herodiac). Only the snow slides Like gilded myrrh-- From the rose-branches--hides Rose-roots that stir.                                                         Edith Sitwell