Wednesday
Nov. 22, 1995
Famous
Today's reading: "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye from Words Under the Words, published by The Eighth Mountain Press.
Feast Day of St. Cecelia.
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Birthday of French explorer Rene-Robert La Salle born in 1643.
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Abigail Adams born in 1744.
English travel writer Thomas Cooke born in 1808.
Novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, born in 1819.
Birthday of English musician Cecil Sharp born in 1859.
National HockeyLeague established in 1917.
Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael born in 1899.
Birthday of actress Geraldine Page, 1924.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®