Saturday

Jun. 1, 1996

My Sweetest Lesbia

by Thomas Campion

SATURDAY 6/1

Today's Reading: "My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love" by Thomas Campion.

It's the beginning of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

Mormon leader Brigham Young, was born on this day in Whitingham, Vermont in 1801.

English poet laureate John Edward Masefield was born on this day in 1878.

Yiddish actress and singer Molly Picon was born on this day in 1898 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was created on this day in 1909 in New York City by a coalition of whites and African-Americans concerned about racial discrimination.

Novelist Colleen McCullough (THE THORN BIRDS) was born on this day in Wellington, Australia in 1937.

The Beatles released their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" on this day in 1967.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®

 

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