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Daily Newsletter for Friday, October 6, 2017

wagon wheel

A birdnote sounding here and there,
A bloom, where leaves are brown and sober,
Warm noons, and nights with frosty air,
And loaded wagons say, October.
–Thomas Stephens Collier (1842–93)
 
Friday, October 6, 2017
 279th day of the year


Elisabeth Shue (actress) was born on this day in 1963.
Bette Davis (actress) died on this day in 1989.
 

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