Feb5

Events: This Week

Feb.. 6  Farmington / 1st Monday of the month – 6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington – Adult Poets and Writers Group (795-5944, http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/poetwrite.html )

Feb.. 7  Moultonbor​o Poetry Night - Tues. "Evening of Poetry" coming up on Tues. Feb. 7. The event will feature    local Sandwich poet Jan Goldman  http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/

Portland, Feb. 7: Port Veritas reading series. Blue, 650 Congress Street. 6:30pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com )

Feb.. 8   Exeter– 6:30 – 8:30pm – Water Street Bookstore, Exeter – Features followed by open mike (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com)

Feb 9, Durham The UNH Writers Series will present Tom Haines, who has twice been voted Travel Journalist of the Year twice by the Society of American Travel Writers. At 5 p.m., MUB 1, University of New Hampshire (603-862-1313). http://www.unh.edu/english/index.cfm?id=08E8ECFF-EB2E-E5C4-E4A9423FF73FA5E5

Feb.. 9 Manchester,: Slam Free or Die, featuring Katie Frank, with open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , http://www.facebook.com/slamfreeordie )

Born:

February 5

Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan 1589-21 Jan.1670) French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRacan%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422US456%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&twu=1&u=http://www.racan.org/&usg=ALkJrhh66PGMzfvwc6hkDLW9MzawYJjaWw

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/la-venue-du-printemps/

Marie de Sevigne (1626 – 04/17/1696) French letter-writer

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Madame_de_S%C3%A9vign%C3%A9

http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/sevigne.html

John Witherspoon 1723 - November 15, 1794  clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1156

Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877) Finnish poet, teacher, novelist

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

http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/jp_runeberg.htm

from Saarijarven Paavo

She mixed in the bread of bark the double,
He dug then of double size the ditches,
Sold the cows, and bought some rye and sowed it.
Spring came on, the drift from cornfields melted,
But with it away there flowed no young blades.
Summer came, burst forth with hail the shower,
But with te ears were not down beaten,
Autumn came, and frost, the cornfields shunning,
Let them stand in gold to bide the reaper.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saarijarven-paavo/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/

Dwight L. Moody  (1837 – 12/22/1899)  US evangelist

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/evangelistsandapologists/moody.html

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840 – November 24, 1916) US/United Kingdom inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun /automatic single-barrel rifle) – and the ubiquitous mousetrap.

http://home.frognet.net/~ejcov/hsmaxim.html

 Charles Marie Georges Joris Karl Huysmans, (1848-1907), French novelist

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

Adlai Stevenson (1900 – 07/14/1965) US Vice President (23)

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/mcuna/stevenson/shistory1.htm

http://www.nndb.com/people/683/000026605/

John Carradine (1906 – 11/27/1988) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001017/

William S.eward Burroughs, (1914-1997) U.S. experimental novelist

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

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 1914– 20 December 1998 British physiologist and biophysicist,

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/hodgkin-bio.html

Alan Hodgkin 1914 British physicist (Nobel 1963)

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/
Robert Hofstadter 1915 November 17, 1990) US atomic physicist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/hofstadter-bio.html

http://www.fau.edu/library/nobel49.htm

Margaret  Ellis Sturm Millar (1915-1994) Canadian-American Mystery Novelist

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

Red Buttons Aaron Chwatt (1919 – 07/13/2006) US composer, comic, actor, author

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000999/

Andrew Greeley (1928), Catholic priest novelist, writer on religion and sociology

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?311

Jörn Donner 1933- Finland-Swedish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician

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

Hank Aaron  (1934 – )  US baseball player

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aaronha01.shtml

Jane Bryant Quinn (1939 – ) US economist

http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/jane-bryant-quinn.html

http://janebryantquinn.com/

Stephen Joseph Cannell 1941 – September 30, 2010) American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor,

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59472716

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004798/

http://www.cannell.com/

Michael Mann 1943-  Chicago IL, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000520/
Nolan Bushnell 1943 founder (Atari)/creator (Pong)

http://www.nndb.com/people/451/000024379/

Al an Peter Kuperschmidt; Kooper 1944) American songwriter, record producer and musician,(Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)

http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomallkooper

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/al-kooper-p4704

Christopher Nigel Tufnel, Guest (1948 ) US writer, actor, musician

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001302/

Elizabeth Swados, 1951- U.S. novelist, children's book writer, composer and playwright

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841422/

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Celebrating_Innovative_Women_of_Theater_Elizabeth_Swados_20050307

Peter “Stoney” Robert Emshwiller (1959) novelist, artist, editor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor.

http://stoneyland.net/art/artsub/artsub.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256681/

Passed:

February 5

 Marcus Porcius Cato (the younger)  Uticensis  0095-0045/6 BC-Roman patriot & philosopher

http://www.cato.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31592/31592-h/31592-h.htm

Thomas Carlyle (12/04/1795 –1881) English writer

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

Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson (  17 February 1864-1941) Australian Poet

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=118

from Song of the Future

But times are changed, and changes rung

  From old to new — the olden days,

  The old bush life and all its ways

  Are passing from us all unsung.

  The freedom, and the hopeful sense

  Of toil that brought due recompense,

  Of room for all, has passed away,

  And lies forgotten with the dead.

  Within our streets men cry for bread

  In cities built but yesterday.

  About us stretches wealth of land,

  A boundless wealth of virgin soil

  As yet unfruitful and untilled!

  Our willing workmen, strong and skilled

  Within our cities idle stand,

  And cry aloud for leave to toil.

  The stunted children come and go

  In squalid lanes and alleys black;

  We follow but the beaten track

  Of other nations, and we grow

  In wealth for some — for many, woe.

  And it may be that we who live

  In this new land apart, beyond

  The hard old world grown fierce and fond

  And bound by precedent and bond,

  May read the riddle right and give

  New hope to those who dimly see

  That all things may be yet for good,

  And teach the world at length to be

  One vast united brotherhood.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/304/304-h/304-h.htm

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887-1972) US Poet translator, and Editor/ honours during her lifetime: election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Bollingen Prize, a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the National Institute

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/232.html

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

http://www.poemhunter.com/marianne-moore/poems/

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/poetry.htm

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (02/11/1909 –1993) Polish-American director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000581/

Sites:

http://www.sebringraceway.com/

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=98ymvxbab&v=001Ro55SkI4QPZwpmNC_1qj5DQDoIKMX-6ugV-WgfTuvZmhwC8A7OIYZb_n_0HTTXuXn2HCinnytJ_9KxaAJS8bnQ-hfGjOX3FD0n74rlBE4TbI9VhJcdI06vQftfeT74_srVSwpso9ccaoH2qUKTrw_yav7zRJvZGWbVWXD1JtnR_BfDQ6h3QBzYkO5DMC9OncRNqJ1pFiYqs%3D

http://www.vic.gov.au/index.html

http://writingraw.com/

http://www.cracked.com/

http://unusuallife.com/

http://www.booksmusictoys.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46252700/ns/technology_and_science-space/

History:

February 5

1631 English clergyman Roger Williams first arrived in America.

http://www.rogerwilliams.org/biography.htm

1936 National Wildlife Federation forms

http://www.nwf.org/About/History-and-Heritage.aspx

1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)

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

1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/

http://www.robertpennwarren.com/biography.htm

Bonus Poem:

                   A Sonnet

Why do I love you? If I told you why
Then you would know the secret that was made
The law that Love has from all time obeyed,
And I should understand a mystery.
From the four corners of the earth have I
Gathered into my heart, all unafraid
The friendships that are mine. This price I paid:
I gave myself for them most willingly.
The life in me a part of all Life is!
One great power moves the whole world on its way;
When I am happiest is when I find
The next of kin to me in hills or seas
Or trees that grow, or flowers that bloom in May
Or you dear love my friend so true and kind.

                                                Sarah Orne Jewett

http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/poe/poe-cont.htm

Note & a thank you-

I don’t know what I did to get the attention, but the response to my request for input has been amazing. Thanks to everyone ; I will try not to mangle the stuff in distribution; No effort is unappreciated by me.

Skip, your assembler of stuff of interest.