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EVENTS:

Deerfield, Oct. 25: Open mike at The Lion, 7-9 p.m. (Lindsey Coombs, 463-7226 or cell 302-379-0857 lindseycoombs.gmail.com).

BIRTHDAYS:

October 24

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 – 04/30/1879)  US writer

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/145.html

http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html

G(eorg) A(ugust) Wallin (1811-1852)Yrjö Aukusti Wallin Abd al-Wali   Finnish explorer, orientalist, teacher

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gawallin.htm

John Edwards, 1815 – 1894 Brig General (Union volunteers),

http://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/11/brigadier-general-john-edwards.html
Belva Bennett Lockwood, 1830 -  attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWlockwoodBelva.htm

Hermann Claudius, 1878 - 1980  German folk poet (Meister Bertram)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Claudius&ei=seukTuyCHebs0gGA1MycBQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DHermann%2BClaudius,%26hl%3Den%26qscrl%3D1%26nord%3D1%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D667%26site%3Dwebhp%26prmd%3Dimvns

Brenda Ueland  (1891 – 03/05/1985)  US writer /journalist

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/brenda_ueland/

https://www.graywolfpress.org/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.author&product_id=234&author_id=108

Melvin Purvis, (1903 – 1960) American FBI agent

http://www.nndb.com/people/217/000205599/

 Moss Hart  (1904 – 12/20/1961)  US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366454/

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=6153

Bob Kane  (1915 – 11/03/1998)  US cartoonist

http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kane.htm

Denise Levertov  (1923 – 12/20/1997)  US writer

The well

At sixteen I believed the moonlight

could change me if it would.

I moved my head

on the pillow, even moved my bed

as the moon slowly

crossed the open lattice.

I wanted beauty, a dangerous

gleam of steel, my body thinner,

my pale face paler.

I moonbathed

diligently, as others sunbathe.

But the moon's unsmiling stare

kept me awake. Mornings,

I was flushed and cross.

It was on dark nights of deep sleep

that I dreamed the most, sunk in the well,

and woke rested, and if not beautiful,

filled with some other power.

http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/levertov.htm#_Toc23572789

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/41

George H Crumb, 1929 -   Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278986/
James Brosnan, 1929 -  baseball player/writer (Long Season)

http://www.davehoekstra.com/sports/jim_brosnan_writer.pdf

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/jim-brosnan/featured/2

Adrian Mitchell  (1932 –DEC 20,2008 )  English writer /poet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4229932/Adrian-Mitchell.html

http://stars-sliding.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-like-adrian-mitchell-and-have-several.html

Norman Rush, 1933 -  American writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/norman-rush/

Paula Gunn Allen  (1939 –2001 )  US native writer

http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/paula/

PASSED:

October 24

Tycho Brahe,   (12/14/1546 –1601) Danish astronomer

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/brahe.html
Elias Boudinot, (1740- 1821) American President of the Continental Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000661

Daniel Webster, (01/18/1782 –1852) US writer / statesman, - lawyer / speaker / minister of Foreign affairs,

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h273.html

James Jay Archer, 1864   US Conf brig-general

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9854
Raffaello Carboni, 1875  Italian writer
Francis Turner Palgrave, ( -1897)   poet/editor (Golden Treasury)

http://www.nndb.com/people/529/000096241/

A Song of Spring and Autumn

IN the season of white wild roses

We two went hand in hand:

But now in the ruddy autumn

Together already we stand.

O pale pearl-necklace that wandered

O'er the white-thorn's tangled head!

The white-thorn is turned to russet,

The pearls to purple and red!

On the topmost orchard branches

It then was crimson and snow,

Where now the gold-red apples

Burn on the turf below.

And between the trees the children

In and out run hand in hand;

And, with smiles that answer their smiling,

We two together stand.

                                                                                     Francis Turner Palgrave

http://theotherpages.org/poems/palgrav1.html

George Cadbury, (1839-1922) British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REcadbury.htm

Louis Renault, 1877-1944 French automobile manufacturer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/business/global/20renault.html?_r=1

Christian Dior, 1905-57  French designer (New Look)

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/christian-dior.html

George Moore (11/04/1873 –1958) English philosopher

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/moor.htm

Richard Hofstadter, 1916-70 -  US historian

http://www.nndb.com/people/916/000047775/

Jackie Robinson  (01/31/1919 –1972)  US baseball player

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinja02.shtml

Eleanor Robson Belmont  (12/13/1879 –1979) English-US actor, writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7590800

Ariel Durant (05/10/1898 –1981)  Russian/American historian and writer

http://www.willdurant.com/ariel.htm

Richie Evans,  July 23.1941 -1941 1985American NASCAR driver

http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Richie_Evans.htm

Gene Roddenberry  (08/19/1921 –/1991)  US TV producer

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=roddenberry

Thomas Williams [1927-90]  UNH lit teacher /writer 

http://marywhipplereviews.com/thomas-williams-the-hair-of-harold-roux/

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/25/obituaries/thomas-williams-is-dead-at-63-a-novelist-and-english-professor.html

Mary Steichen Calderone  (07/01/1904 –1998)  US physician, writer

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_49.html

Rosa Parks, 1913- 2005 American civil rights activist

http://www.nndb.com/people/651/000022585/
Lamont Johnson, 1922-2010 American television director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425593/
Joseph Stein, (1912-2010) American playwright

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=6978

SITES:

http://dianediprima.com/

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/index.php

http://matttavares.com/

http://www.plokta.com/plokta/index.htm

HISTORY:

1260 - The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

http://goeurope.about.com/od/chartresfrance/a/chartres.htm

1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/movietheaters.aspx?id=603&type=5

1929 - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

http://www.money-zine.com/Investing/Stocks/Stock-Market-Crash-of-1929/

1988 - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

http://www.travelingwilburys.com/history/

BONUS POEM:

Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child
One summer afternoon, I learned my body like a blind child leaving a walled school for the first time, stumbling from cool hallways to a world dense with scent and sound, pines roaring in the sudden wind like a huge chorus of insects. I felt the damp socket of flowers, touched weeds riding the crest of a stony ridge, and the scrubby ground cover on low hills. Haystacks began to burn, smoke rose like sheets of translucent mica. The thick air hummed over the stretched wires of wheat as I lay in the overgrown field listening to the shrieks of small rabbits bounding beneath my skin.

by Darcy Cummings

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19048