March  17

Events:

March 17, Peterborough: The Monadnock Writers' Group will host publisher Sid Hall, author Judy Ringer, and Williard Williams, co-owner of Toadstool Bookshops, in a panel discussion, Publishing in the 21st Century. At 9:45 a.m., Peterborough Town Library (603-924-8040; www.monadnockwriters.org).

March 17,  Jaffrey Pot luck at 7pm, poetry open mic at 8pm, followed by a feature poet. $3 at the door MindFull Books 29 Main Street Jaffrey NH Audio Graffiti Poetry Series

http://www.facebook.com/audiograffitipoetry#!/audiograffitipoetry?sk=wall

Born:

March 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Jeanne-Marie Roland  (03/17/1754 – 11/08/1793)  French Revolutionary
http://www.nndb.com/people/285/000087024/

Ebenezer Elliott, (1781- Dec.1 ,1849 ) "Corn Law Rhymer". Eng Poet

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/e/l/elliott_e.htm

http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/elly.htm

 Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871  English devotional writer.. Of her 150 hymns, "Just As I Am" remains popular today.
http://www.stempublishing.com/hymns/biographies/elliott.html

James "Jim" Bridger, (1804- 1881). A Frontiersman -trapper, scout, and guide

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/mtmen/jimbrid.html

Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (1811-Dec.8,1878) German novelist and dramatist

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33784579.N05/5232426020/

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9977/pg9977.html

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne 1828 – Nov. 30, 1864 the "Stonewall" of the West (Major General-Confederate Army)
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=339
Jean Ingelow (1829 – 07/20/1897) Eng writer & poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jean-ingelow

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=4305
Moncure Daniel Conway 1832 – Nov.5,1907 US, clergyman/author/abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/moncureconway.html
Walter Quintin Gresham 1832 - 1895Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wqgresham.htm

Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) Eng Journalist & Custodian, Shakespeare's Birthplace

http://gerald-massey.org.uk/skipsey/index.htm

James R. Murray, 1841-March 10,1905 American sacred music editor. A veteran of the American Civil War, Murray is better remembered today as composer of the hymn tune MUELLER, to which we sing the Christmas carol, "Away in a Manger."

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/m/u/murray_jr.htm

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) English author and illustrator

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=Kate+Greenaway+

http://www.illuminated-books.com/books/flowers.htm

John Davys Beresford (1873-1 Feb. 1947) English writer; science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?J._D._Beresford

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=5862

Lawrence Oates  (1880 – 03/17/1912)  English explorer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17269397

Julius R. Mantey, 1890-   co-author (with H. E. Dana) of a popular intermediate biblical language grammar. Originally published in 1927, the "Dana & Mantey" New Testament Greek Grammar is still popular, and still in print!

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Jehovah-s-Witness-1617/2008/2/Dr-Mantey.htm

http://www.truthandgrace.com/Mantey.htm

Paul Green (1894-May 4,1981) US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=8043

Alfred Newman 1900 -February 17, 1970 New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000055/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/alfred-newman-p143221

Patrick Hamilton (1904-Sept.23,1962) English novelist and playwright
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hamilt.htm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358096/

Bayard Rustin  (1910 – 08/24/1987)  US civil rights leader

http://rustin.org/

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/bayard-rustin-fought-racism-frontlines
Hans Namuth 1915 - October 13, 1990 German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/namuth/index5.htm

Nat "King" Nathaniel Adams Coles Cole (1919 – 02/15/1965) US singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nat-king-cole-p65542

John La Montaine 1920-  Oak Park IL, composer (Pulitzer 1959)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-la-montaine-q3560

http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/l/la_montaine.html

Dick Curless 1932 -May25,1995 singer/songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dick-curless-p24203

Terry Dicks  (1937 –Jan 2006 )  English politician

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/jan/10/obituaries.labour1
John Bellairs, 1938-91 US, sci-fi author

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-bellairs/

http://www.bellairsia.com/

http://bellairsreview.blogspot.com/

Rudolf Nureyev  (1938 – 01/06/1993)  Russian dancer, choreographer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638159/

John Sebastian (1944 – ) US singer, songwriter

Darling Be Home Soon


Come
And talk of all the things we did today
Here
And laugh about our funny little ways
While we have a few minutes to breathe
Then I know that it's time you must leave

-chorus-
But darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to

And now
A quarter of my life is almost past
I think I've come to see myself at last
And I see that the time spent confused
Was the time that I spent without you
And I feel myself in bloom

-Chorus-

Go
And beat your crazy head against the sky
Try
And see beyond the houses and your eyes
It's ok to shoot the moon

So darling
My darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to

Lovin' Spoonful - words and music by John Sebastian
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/lovin-spoonful/darling-be-home-soon.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-sebastian-p5387/biography

James Morrow, 1947 - American author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77

Avery Clayton 1947- Nov. 26, 2009). African American Educator, Artist, Entrepreneur and Historian.

http://www.claytonmuseum.org/

William [Ford] Gibson Canada, 1948 sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

http://www.amazon.com/William-Gibson/e/B000AP5DM0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1331899451&sr=8-1

Kurt Russell  (1951 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000621/
Michael Kelly (1957 – 04/03/2003) US journalist

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/kelly.archives.asp

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83204,00.html

Gary Sinise  (1964 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000641/

Rob Lowe  (1964 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000507/

Billy Corgan  (1967 – )  US singer (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/billy-corgan-p66541

Melissa Auf der Maur  (1972 – )  Canadian bassist (Smashing Pumpkins, Hole)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/melissa-auf-der-maur-p229771

Passed:

March 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY

St Patrick (  - 0461) patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)

The Dear Little Shamrock

There's a dear little plant that grows in Ireland. 'Twas Saint Patrick himself sure that set it. And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile. And a tear from his eyes oft-times wet it. It grows thro' the bog, thro' the brake, and the mireland, And it's called the dear little Shamrock of Ireland. That dear little plant still grows in our land, Fresh and fair as the daughters of Erin, Whose smiles can bewitch, and whose eyes can command, In each climate they ever appear in: For they shine thro' the bog, thro' the brake, and the mireland, Just like their own dear little Shamrock of Ireland. That dear little plant that springs from our soil, When its three little leaves are extended, Denotes from the stalk we together should toil, And ourselves by ourselves be befriended. And still thro' the bog, thro' the brake, and the mireland, From one root should branch, like the Shamrock of Ireland.                                                                                 by Andrew Cherry http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/songs/mshamrock.htm

Ibn Khaldun (05/27/1332 –1406) Tunisian historian

http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/klf.htm

Thomas Randolph (1605-34) English poet and dramatist

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/274.html

http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/r/randolph/

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, (16 April , 1671 -1741 ) French poet

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13212b.htm

http://www.archive.org/stream/odescantatesp00rous/odescantatesp00rous_djvu.txt

Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald (09/15/1613-1680) French writer -author of maxims and memoirs.

http://www.rodneyohebsion.com/rochefoucauld.html

John Pelham ( Sept.7,1838 -1863) US Confederate artillery major

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7407

Robert Chambers (07/10/1802 – 1871) Scottish writer

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/chambers.html

Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm [Pauwels Foreestier],08/13/1820  -1889 Dutch Catholic poet & novelist

http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=albe003

Lawrence Oates  (03/17/1880 –1912)  English explorer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9580940

Kenyon Cox (10/27/1856 – 1919) US artist

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cox_kenyon.html

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel 1894-1941 Russian writer (Crvena Konjica)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01800.html

Suzanna Salter (03021860-1961 1st US female mayor/temperance leader

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38837870

Quentin Reynolds (04/11/1902 – 1965) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721913/

http://law.jrank.org/pages/3052/Reynolds-v-Pegler-1954.html#ixzz0Ji6zWI7K&C

Fred Allen  (05/31/1894 – 03/17/1956)  US comic

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020521/\
Frank Wisbar  Dec.9,1899 –1967 International  director (Fireside Theater)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936252/
Luchino Visconti di Modrone (11/02/1906 –1976) Italian director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899581/

Rick Grech   ( Nov.1,1946-1990) rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blind-faith-p3701/biography
George Lovi (Aug 14,1939-1992 US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"),

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993JBAA..103..201T

Jack Arnold Oct.14,1916- 1992 US actor/director (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000791/

 Helen Hayes  (10/10/1900 –1993)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371040/

http://www.ibdb.com/search.asp

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=22218

Arthur C Jacobs 30 May 1937- 1994 Scot poet

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-a-c-jacobs-1369920.html
Rene Clement March 18, 1913 -1996 Fr.film director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167496/

Andre Norton, 1912- 2005 American writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/andre-norton/

John W. Backus  (12/03/1924 –2007)  US computing pioneer
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html

Albert Sidney Fleischman Sid Fleischman (March 16, 1920 –2010), , Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and books on magic.

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6723533.html?desc=topstory

Alex Chilton  (12/28/1950 –2010)  US singer (Box Tops, Big Star)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/alex-chilton-p3892

Sites:

http://www.ukrainianliterature.org/

http://www.teachforamerica.org/

http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/en/

http://www.u-s-history.com/index.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39121/39121-h/39121-h.htm

History:

March 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY

1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in New York

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-roosevelt-marries-eleanor-roosevelt
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html

1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101642032

Bonus Poem:

Speak to Me, My Love!

Speak to me, my love!

Tell me in words what you sang.

The night is dark.

The stars are lost in clouds.

The wind is sighing through the leaves.

I will let loose my hair.

My blue cloak will cling round me like [night].

I will clasp your head to my bosom;

And there in the sweet loneliness

murmur on your heart.

I will shut my eyes and listen.

I will not look in your face.

When your words are ended,

we will sit still and silent.

Only the trees will whisper in the dark.

[The night will pale.]

The day will dawn.

We shall look at each other's eyes

and go on our different paths.

Speak to me, my love!

Tell me in words what you sang.

                                       by Rabindranath Tagore  (1861-1941)

from The Gardener, no. 29, published 1915

http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15561