July 27

Events:

July 27, Goffstown: Open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in thevillage. (http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/    or  http://www.apothecaonline.com/

This Just in;

July 28 Wolfeboro ArtsontheEdge storyteller Diane Edgecomb and Celtic harpist Margot Chamberlain will present “Midsummer Magic,” a free event for all ages in Cate Park at 10am followed by a workshop on storytelling. This lively summer entertainment includes traditional music and song to round out the telling This event is sponsored in part by The Booth Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Cate Memorial Lecture Committee. http://www.artsedgewolfeboro.org/

Born:

Manuel II Palaeologus  1350-July 21,,1425  Royalty Byzantine Emperor

http://www.roman-emperors.org/manuel2.htm

Johann Bernoulli   1667-Jan1, 1748 mathematician; L'Hôpital's rule

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Johann.html

Thomas Campbell (1777-15th of June, 1844) Scot , Scholar ,teacher, poet

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/campbell_thomas.htm

Alexandre Dumas Fils (1824 – 11/27/1895) French writer

http://www.online-literature.com/dumas-fils/

Giosuè Carducci (1835-Feb16, 1907 ) Italian poet, critic, scholar, and orator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, Odi barbare

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/carducci.htm

Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-Jan 6,1933 Histrionic Russian pianist, known for Chopin

http://www.arbiterrecords.com/musicresourcecenter/pachmann.html
George Foster Peabody 1852-  March 4, 1938  US banker and philanthropist.

http://www.peabody.uga.edu/overview_history/george.php

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853-December 25, 1921) Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian

http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/06/korolenko.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html

James Edwin Campbell 1867-  96  , African-American poet, editor, short story writer, and educator.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-edwin-campbell

Hilaire Belloc  (1870 – 07/16/1953) French writer

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbelloc.htm

http://www.poemhunter.com/hilaire-belloc/

Charles Vidor (1900- June 4, 1959) Film Director A Farewell to Arms

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0896533/

Leo Durocher (1906 – 10/07/1991) US baseball player, coach                                                    

http://baseballhall.org/hof/durocher-leo

Joseph Mitchell (1908-May24, 1996 ) Author The New Yorker

http://www.ncwriters.org/services/lhof/inductees/jmitchel.htm

Eva Jones, 1913 – April 17, 1996 Ger/Brit poet/novelist

Interim

Days stirred in that heat,
We did not notice them.

Only the pale fern’s lace
To bed us, and that tree,

Infested with night-
Shriek, stunned my hand

Flung over you, before God
And the rest of it…

We rinsed while the horizon emptied.
Lived on apples and salt.

http://aboutaword.blogspot.com/2010/04/eve-jones-all-poems-lied.html

http://www.turningpointbooks.com/eve-jones-poetry.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-eva-jones-1306700.html

Keenan Wynn (1916 – 10/14/1986) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943978/
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-Dec 2,2007 American novelist and critic ;co-founded the New York Review of Books Seduction and Betrayal

http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Hardwick/e/B001IXNTI8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Vincent Canby (1924 – 10/15/2000) US film critic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/oct/17/guardianobituaries.filmnews

Jerry Juhl (1938-Sept 27,2005 US Head Screen writer, The Muppet Show

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432075/

Bobbie Gentry Roberta Lee Streeter ( 1944-  ) Singer Ode to Billie Joe

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074995/

Carol Leifer (1956 – ) US comic

http://www.carolleifer.com/

Maya Rudolph (1972 – ) US comic actor (SNL)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748973/

Alex Rodriguez (1975-  ) Baseball NY Yankees 3rd Baseman

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml

Passed:

William Bainbridge (May7,1774-1833) Commodore, War of 1812

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2005_summer_fall/sea_captain.htm

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Oct 15,1814- 1841 ) Russ poet/novelist A Hero of Our Time

http://www.shigeku.org/xlib/lingshidao/waiwen/lermontov.htm

John Dalton (09/06/1766 –1844)  English scientist

http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/dalton.aspx

James Thornton  (Dec.5, 1861-1938) American songwriter and vaudeville performer. When You Were Sweet Sixteen

http://www.kokomo.ca/_private/composer/Thornton.htm#When%20You%20Were%20Sweet%20Sixteen

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - 1946) 1874 United States -Fr. Ex-pat Poet

http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/gertrude.stein.asp

Susan Glaspell  (July 1 ,1882-1948) Playwright Provincetown Players

http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/notread/author.html

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/glaspell.html

Iris Morley  (May10, 1910- 1953 ) English historian, writer and journalist. A Thousand Lives

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Morley,%20Iris/aid/3477594

Richard Aldington (July 8-1892-1962 ) poet  Death of a Hero

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/richard-aldington

Sir Osbert Lancaster (08/04/1908 –1980) English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer /gardener ,
http://quoteocean.com/sir-osbert-lancaster

http://www.wallacecollection.org/collections/exhibition/69

William Wyler (07/01/1902 –1981) French /Ger/Amer director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943758/

James Mason (05/15/1909 –1984) English actor ,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000051/

Frank Zamboni, January 16, 1901-1988 - American inventor  

http://www.film.queensu.ca/cJ3B/Finds/FindsIce.html

Ivan V Lalic (June 8, 1931 -1996 ) Serb poet

Places We Love

Places we love exist only through us,
Space destroyed is only illusion in the constancy of time,
Places we love we can never leave,
Places we love together, together, together,

And is this room really a room, or an embrace,
And what is beneath the window: a street or years?
And the window is only the imprint left by
The first rain we understood, returning endlessly,

And this wall does not define the room, but perhaps the night
Your son began to move in your sleeping blood,
A son like a butterfly of flame in your hall of mirrors,
The night you were frightened by your own light,

And this door leads into any afternoon
Which outlives it, forever peopled
With your casual movements, as you stepped,
Like fire into copper, into my only memory;

When you go, space closes over like water behind you,
Do not look back: there is nothing outside you,
Space is only time visible in a different way,
Places we love we can never leave.

http://riznicasrpska.net/knjizevnost/index.php?topic=320.0

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ivan-lalic-1307783.html

Bobby Day( July 1,1928-1999) Singer,songwriter Rockin' Robin

http://www.oldies.com/artist-view/Bobby-Day.html

Bob Hope (05/29/1903 –2003) US comic

http://www.bobhope.com/

Robert Wright (Sept.25,1914-2005 ) Songwriter Kismet

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-wright-mn0000960720

Sites:

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/ClearVoices.htm

http://olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2011/index.html

http://www.philsp.com/articles/webster_index.html

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ockham.html

http://www.writersday.org/tags/keene-literary-festival

History:

1890 Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in a wheat field outside Auvers-sur-Oise, in France

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/in_his_steps/auvers.html

Bonus Poem:

Then and Now

          Beneath her window in the fragrant night

           I half forget how truant years have flown

          Since I looked up to see her chamber-light,

           Or catch, perchance, her slender shadow thrown

          Upon the casement; but the nodding leaves

           Sweep lazily across the unlit pane,

          And to and fro beneath the shadowy eaves,

           Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain

          Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

           When all is still, as if the very trees

          Were listening for the coming of her feet

           That come no more; yet, lest I weep, the breeze

          Sings some forgotten song of those old years

          Until my heart grows far too glad for tears.

                                                By   John MCRae

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/353/353-h/353-h.htm