Saturday

Oct. 14, 1995

When God Lets My Body Be

by E. E. Cummings

SATURDAY 10/14

Today's reading: "When god lets my body be": by e.e. cummings from COMPLETE POEMS, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich.

Wristwrestling Championships today in Petaluma, California.

The Alaska Day Celebration begins in celebration of transfer of land from Russia to U.S.

Sedona Arts Festival begins today in Sedona, Arizona.

War of 1812 reenactment takes place today and tomorrow in Marion, Indiana.

Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings from the year 1066.

State of Pennsylvania founder William Penn born on this day in 1644.

Sound barrier first broken in 1947 by Major Charles Yeager.

Peace Corps was conceived in 1960 during John Kennedy visit to Univ. of Michigan.

Birthday of writer Katherine Mansfield, born in 1888.

Author e.e. cummings born on this day in 1894.

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