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EVENTS:

Note change in scheduled time of following events!

10/29		11AM		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire will read mailto: poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com
10/29		12 noon		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Becky Sakellariou & Charles Pratt will read for the PSNH. All are welcome mailto: poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com

BIRTHDAYS:

October 28

Levi Coffin  1798-1877  . American abolitionist and president of the Underground Railroad

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/levi-coffin-underground-railroad-president

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coffin/bio.html
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, 1842 –Oct22 1032  American orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)

http://www.historyswomen.com/socialreformer/AnnaElizabethDickinson.html

Velimir Khlebnikov, Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov (1885 - 1922), Russian poet

http://www.poemhunter.com/velimir-khlebnikov/

http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/TheRussiaDesk2.aspx

Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], 1893 -1961  editor-in-chief (Negro Worker)

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/29785/6/Lawrie_RD_Paul_20116_PhD_thesis.pdf

Eileen Shanahan, (1901 - 1979) Irish Poet

THREE CHILDREN NEAR CLONMEL

I met three children on the road --
The hawthorn trees were sweet with rain
The hills had drawn their white blinds down --
Three children on the road from town.

Their wealthy eyes in splendour mocked
Their faded rags and bare wet feet,
The King had sent his daughters out
To play at peasants in the street.

I could not see the palace walls;
The avenues were dumb with mist;
Perhaps a queen would watch and weep
For lips that she had borne and kissed --

And lost about the lonely world,
With treasury of hair and eye
The tigers of the world would spring,
The merchants of the world would buy.

And one will sell her eyes for gold,
And one will barter them for bread,
And one will watch their glory fade
Beside the looking-glass unwed.

A hundred years will softly pass,
Yet on the Tipperary hills
The shadows of a king and queen
Will darken on the daffodils.

                -- Eileen Shanahan

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IRELAND/2002-11/1037215312

Kaarlo Ilmari Turja   1901-98            Finnish playwright and journalist

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/iturja.htm
Evelyn [Arthur St. John] Waugh (1903-10 April 1966),), British novelist

http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/home2.htm

John Hollander (1929) USA Poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-hollander

Michael Crichton  (1942 – 11/04/2008)   US writer

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/

Bill Gates  (1955 – )  US Entrepreneur

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520

PASSED:

October 28

Jien, (1155- 1225 Japanese poet and historian)

http://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&source=gbs_similarbooks

John Locke  (08/29/1632 –1704)  English philosopher

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Locke.htm

William Mickle (1735-88) Scot Augustan clerk / poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/223.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/william-mickle/poems/

Charlotte Turner Smith, (1749-1806) British poet and novelist

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/304.html

Abigail Smith Adams  (11/11/1744 –1818)  US First Lady (2)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/abigailadams

Nestor Hugo Verriest, 25 November 1840 - 1922 ) was a Flemish priest, writer and orator. /poet

http://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?record=be036&webpage=ST

http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=verr007

Edward James Ted Hughes  (08/17/1930 –1998)  Eng writer PL

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/113

Marijohn Wilkin, (1920-2006)American songwriter

http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/t-z/marijohn-wilkin.aspx

Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cool dark night                                            

There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene and they all did agree                                     

That the man who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said "Son, what is your alibi? 

If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die"

I spoke not a word although it meant my life 

I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil 

She visits my grave where the night winds wail

Nobody knows, no, and nobody sees 

Nobody knows but me

The scaffold was high and eternity neared 

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear 

But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans 

In a long black veil she cries over my bones

http://theband.hiof.no/lyrics/long_black_veil.html

SITES:

http://www.ncal.com/

http://www.uniworldcruises.co/Cruises/Uniworld-River-Cruises/SS-Antoinette.html?ref=23093&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search%20Engine&utm_term=S%2ES%2E%20Antoinette&utm_content=Ships&utm_campaign=Cruise&rdirect=t&gclid=COWksbe3gawCFQd-5QodsQSxPQ&rtinc=47

http://buntenfarm.com/

http://www.contemporaryverse2.ca/index.php/current-issue/493-rachel-zolf-poem-39-a-tongue-listens-to-a-war

http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/archives/Ellipsis2011.pdf

http://www.therockinghamballroom.com/

HISTORY:

1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded

http://harvardmagazine.com/?utm_source=Harvard+Magazine+e-mail&utm_campaign=65e87b5374-Oct_EHighlights_ND2011&utm_medium=email

1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h1522.html

1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html

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