Feb.. 20
Presidents Day
Events:
Comin’ Up-
February 21, Laconia Historical & Museum Society brings to you a Native American Lecture Program as presented by Linda Perkins who is a member of the NH Inter-Tribal Native American Council and is of Abenaki descent.
Join us for this very interesting and informational program which will be held at the Laconia Public Library at 7:00 pm.  Refreshments will be served – Admission is Free – Donations Gratefully accepted.
For more information about the Native American Lecture please call the Laconia Historical and Museum Society at (603) 527-1278, email us at www.lhmslpl.metrocast.net or visit our website at www.laconiahistorical.org.
Born:
February 20

Henry James Pye, (1745-Aug 11,1813 )Brit poet laureate
http://www.poemhunter.com/henry-james-pye/
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/484543/Henry-James-Pye
William Carleton, (1794 - 30 January 1869, Irish novelist
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=6300
Angelina Grimke (1805 – 10/26/1879) US abolitionist, suffragist, writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgrimke.htm
Charles-Nérée Beauchemin, (1850 - June 29,1931) Canadian physician and poet
http://pages.infinit.net/noxoculi/beauchemin.html
Shiga Naoya (1883-1971) Japanese novelist
http://www.lib.city.minato.tokyo.jp/yukari/e/man-detail.cgi?id=49
Peter Freuchen 1886-Sept 2, 1957 Danish journalist, writer, and explorer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/peterfre.htm
[Edward] Hesketh [Gibbons] Pearson (1887-04/09/1964) English biographer, actor, director, and playwright
http://books.google.com/books/about/Hesketh_Pearson_by_himself.html?id=LD8dAAAAMAAJ
Georges Bernanos (1888- 5 July 1948) French novelist and essayist,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bernanos.htm
http://www.catholicauthors.com/bernanos.html
Russel Crouse (1893-1966), journalist and playwright - partner of Howard Lindsay, won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize in drama/ State of the Union
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189496/
Ansel Adams (1902 – 04/22/1984) US photographer
http://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams/
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/adams.html
Pierre Boulle 1912-Jan.30,94 French writer(1952,The Bridge over the River Kwai, Planet of the Apes
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/boulle.htm
Dame Mary Durack (1913 — 16 December 1994) Australian author ,poet, and historian.
http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/public/author_profile.php?id=883
Sidney Poitier (1924 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001627/
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=15894
Gloria Vanderbilt  (1924 – )  US fashion designer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888742/
Robert Altman (1925 – 11/20/2006) )   US film director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265/
Richard Matheson, 1926 - American author
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558577/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/richard-matheson/
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531
http://spookysean.com/blog/?p=320
Alex La Guma (1925-1985) South African novelist
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/alex-la-guma
Ken Olsen   (1926 – 02/06/2011)   US businessman, DEC founder
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-08/tech/30029675_1_venture-sad-day-mit
Roger Penske, 1937 – US auto racer
http://www-2.hoovers.com/company/Penske_Corporation/cfyjti-1.html
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/M-R/Penske-Roger-S-1937.html
http://indianapolis-indiana.funcityfinder.com/2010/05/17/roger-penske-indy-racing-legend/
Buffy Sainte-Marie   (1941 – )  Canadian Cree- US singer, songwriter musician, composer, visual artist,  educator, pacifist, and social activist.
Until It’s Time for You To Go

            
You're not a dream you're not an Angel you're a man
I'm not a queen I'm a woman take my hand          
We'll make a space in the lives that we planned         
And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go

Yes we're different worlds a-part we're not the same     
We laughed and played at the start like in a game         
You could have stayed outside my heart but in you came
 And here you'll stay until it's time for you to go

  Don't ask why
     Don't ask how
     Don't ask forever
     Love me now

This love of mine had no be-ginning it had no end
I was an oak now I'm a willow now I can bend
 And though I'll never in my life see you a-gain    
Still I'll stay until it's time for you to go

     Don't ask why love me
     Don't ask how love me
     Don't ask forever of me
     Love me love me now
       
You're not a dream you're not an Angel you're a man
I'm not a queen I'm a woman take my hand           
We'll make a space in the lives that we planned        
And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go         
                                                        And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/buffy_sainte-marie/until_its_time_for_you_to_go_crd_1103333id_27102011date.htm
Hugo Williams, (1942). Eng poet
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/hugo_williams
Walter Becker(  1950 – )   US musician (Steely Dan)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/becker-p44934
Charles Barkley   (1963 – )   US basketball player
http://charlesbarkley.com/
Cindy Crawford   (1966 – )   US supermodel
http://www.cindy.com/
Lili Taylor   (/1967 – )   US actor
http://lili.net/
Kurt Cobain   (1967 – 04/05/1994)   US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Nirvana)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kurt-cobain-p65214
Stacey L. Manning 1972- U.S.brand new college grad!, job-seeker, mother, daughter

http://www.facebook.com/groups/26969721359/10150539098426360/#!/profile.php?id=1293323107

Passed:
February 20

Frederick Douglass (02/07/1817 –1895) US abolitionist, writer
http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/
Robert Edwin Peary, May 6, 1856- 1920 US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909)
http://www.biography.com/people/robert-edwin-peary-9435986
John Hope  (06/02/1868 –1936)  US educator
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-855
Laurence Housman  18th July, 1865-1959 Eng Writer ,poet. children stories
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jhousman.htm
A Dead Warrior
HERE sown to dust lies one that drave
The furrow through his heart;
Now, of the fields he died to save
His own dust forms a part.

Where went the tramp of martial feet,
The blare of trumpets loud,
Comes silence with her winding sheet,
And shadow with her shroud.

His mind no longer counsel takes,
No sword his hand need draw,
Across whose borders peace now makes
Inviolable law.

So, with distraction round him stilled,
Now let him be content!
And time from age to age shall build
His standing monument.

Not here, where strife, and greed, and lust
Grind up the bones of men;
But in that safe and secret dust
Which shall not rise again.
http://allpoetry.com/Laurence_Housman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1218
Sophie Treadwell, 1885-1970 American playwright and journalist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1442956/
Walter Winchell (04/07/1897 –1972) US journalist
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1116
Robert Strauss  (11/08/1913 –1975)  US actor
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9429691
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (02/12/1884 –1980) US royalty
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1656

Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin (January 26, 1943 –1986) US science fiction editor
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1933
Gene Siskel, 1946-1999 American film critic
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0803021/
Hunter S. Thompson (07/18/1939 –2005) US "gonzo" journalist
http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/12-31-2008/Hunter-S-Thompson-Motivational-Posters-98
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860219/
Curt Gowdy   (07/31/1919 –2006)   US sports announcer ,
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Curt_Gowdy
Sites:
http://esotericlondon.com/
http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_main_current_issue/or_current_issue_poetry_67.html
www.poetryoutloud.org
http://jazzmouth.org/
http://www.nh.gov/
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=322882354429780

Bonus Poem:
     grace

blessed be the minutes
blessed the breath
and blessed be our small
frail humaness
myopic hard of hearing
grant us peace for words unsaid
what we did and left undone
we were only who we were

Ellen Steinbaum
                                                                        http://www.ellensteinbaum.com/poems/grace.html