Feb.. 7

Events:

Moultonbor​o Poetry Night - Tues. Feb. 7 7:30pm - "Evening of Poetry" Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro - local Sandwich poet Jan Goldman Features followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630) http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/

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

Coming Up:

February 16, Plymouth: The Eagle Pond Author's Series will feature Simon Armitage, who has received wide acclaim for his translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reserve free tickets by calling (603) 535-2874. At 7 p.m., Smith Recital Hall, Plymouth State University (www.silver.plymouth.edu).

Born:

February 7

Sir Thomas More (1478 – 07/06/1535) English writer

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/morebio.htm

Thomas Killigrew 1612-March 16,1683  English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)

http://people.famouswhy.com/thomas_killigrew/
Jean-François Regnard 1655 – 4 September 1709), Frnch comic poet /dramatist, - travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681. (Slave in Algeria)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1551

William Higgins 1762 or 1763- 30 June [?] 1825) Irish chemist;discovered nature of spiral "nebulae"

 http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_Higgins.aspx

John Deere 1804- May 17, 1886,US  pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements

http://www.biography.com/people/john-deere-9269591

http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/corporate/our_company/about_us/history/john_deere_plow/john_deere_plow.page?
Charles [John Huffman] Dickens, (1812 - 9 June 1870) English novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/425.html

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

http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/

Frederick Douglass (1817 – 02/20/1895) US abolitionist, writer

http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1832 -May 1, 1911) American Quaker evangelist and devotional author. "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" (1875).

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/smith_hw/secret.i.html

Ricardo Palma 1833 -October 6, 1919 Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-20391

http://www.polyglotproject.com/books/Spanish/los_duendes_del_cuzco

http://allpoetry.com/Ricardo_Palma
 Sir James Augustus Henry Murray 1837- 26 July 1915 Scottish lexicographer and philologist. created Oxford Dictionaryy

http://www.denholmvillage.co.uk/famous.html#murray

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/35163.html

Leroy Pope Walker  1817-Aug 23 1884US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)

http://www.csawardept.com/history/Cabinet/LPWalker/index.html

Laura Ingalls Wilder  (1867 – 02/10/1957)  US writer (Little House on the Prairie)

http://www.littlehousebooks.com/

http://liwfrontiergirl.com/

Godfrey Harold Hardy  (1877 – 12/01/1947)  English mathematician / number theorist

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Hardy.html

Alfred Adler (1880 – 05/28/1937) Austrian psychologist psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)

http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/adler.htm

Eubie Blake (1883 – 02/12/1983) US ragtime composer/pianist/songwriter(I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You)

http://www.eubieblake.org/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eubie-blake-p6123

Eric Temple Bell (1883 – 12/21/1960) Scottish-US mathematician

http://www.umass.edu/wsp/statistics/tales/bell.html

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

Harry Sinclair Lewis, novelist and social critic, (1885-10 Jan. 1951) Nobel Prize for Lit 1930.

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

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/lewis-autobio.html

http://www.biblio.com/sinclair-lewis~97348~author

Stig Henning Jacob Puggaard Paludan (1896-1975) Danish pharmacist/writer /essayist, poet, and novelist (Jørgen Stein)

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

Milton Krims (1904-1988) teleplay writer (Outer Limits, Perry Mason) and director(Speed)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471341/

David Ignatow, (1914- November 17, 1997 ) U.S. poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-ignatow

I Close My Eyes

I close my eyes like a good little boy at night in bed,

as I was told to do by my mother when she lived,

and before bed I brush my teeth and slip on my pajamas,

as I was told, and look forward to tomorrow.

I do all things required of me to make me a citizen of sterling worth.

I keep a job and come home each evening for dinner. I arrive at the

same time on the same train to give my family a sense of order.

I obey traffic signals. I am cordial to strangers, I answer my

mail promptly. I keep a balanced checking account. Why can’t I

live forever?

                                                                                          By David Ignatow

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/172193
Oscar Brand 1920 - Canadian, folk singer (Draw Me a Laugh)

http://www.oscarbrand.com/

An Wang (1920 – 03/24/1990) Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wang.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/an_wang.html

Bill Hoest (1926 – 11/07/1988) US cartoonist  (The Lockhorns)
http://lambiek.net/artists/h/hoest_bill.htm

Gay Talese   (1932 – )  US writer
http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/talese/

Earl King (1934 – 04/17/2003) US singer, songwriter  (Come On)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p405

Hector Babenco 1946 - director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002199/

Emo Philips  (1956 – )  US comic
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680073/

James Spader  (1960 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000652/

Garth Brooks  (1962 – )  US singer
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/brooks_garth/artist.jhtml

Passed:

February 7

Ann Radcliffe (Ward), 9 July 1764- 1823   English poet/author of horror novels,

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?632

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/radcliffe.html

John Henry Winder 1801-65 US Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4879

http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Winder_John_H_1800-1865

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 –1873) Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels.

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Fanu.html

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

Dollie Radford (Caroline Maitland (1858 – 1920) English poet and writer.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/433.html

A Dream of

ALL day I read your book; at Eve
Your dreams into my dark sleep stole,
Through the unbroken hours to weave
A picture for my soul.
Now from the deep inspired night
I rise, and, near and stretching far,
I see the earth lie clear and bright
Beneath one morning star.
The great World-Spirit watching still
Broods over all with folded wings,
And ever down-cast eyes until
The first bird wakes and sings,
And through the eastern cloud the sun
Breaks with a new unnumbered day
And now His watching is all done--
The night has passed away.
He turns toward the dawn, and I
Wait as he breathes the sweet fresh air,
Then with a new-born joy I cry
To see His face so fair.

http://www.poemhunter.com/dollie-radford/poems/

Elihu Root  (02/15/1845 –1937)  US lawyer, statesman (Nobel 1912),
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1912/root-bio.html

Lin[wood V] Carter, 9 June 1930 -1988 US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?353
Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – 1998) American novelist and short story writer.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761628/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/lawrence-sanders/

"Lonesome" Dave Peverett  (04/16/1943 –2000)  English bassist
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lonesome-dave-peverett-p114070/biography

Doug Henning  (05/03/1947 –2000)  Canadian magician
http://www.magicexhibit.org/story/story_dougHenning.html

Anne Morrow Lindbergh  (06/22/1906 –2001)  US writer, aviator

http://www.biography.com/people/anne-morrow-lindbergh-9542041

William Tenn Philip Klass (May 9, 1920 –2010), a British-born American science fiction author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?484

Sites:

http://www.mooseofhumor.com/

http://www.visithighlandscounty.com/

http://www.rhino.com/?eml=rn/012712/logo

http://www.rocklandlighthouse.com/

http://www.uwi.edu/

http://www.carnewschina.com/2012/01/31/spy-shots-jac-4r3-pickup-truck-from-china-is-gunning-for-the-ford-f150/

http://www.portsmouthsymphony.org/

Bonus Poem:

            Feelings, Now:

Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there.

                              by Katherine Foreman.

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