York on The Grand River



Be sure to come by the park in York on Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  The Neat Little Bookshop will be there on Huckleberry Finn's raft.  Young Huck will be there with his friend, Tom, for Grand Attractions, the river festival ~ Day of 1000 Canoes.

Actor, Hal Holbrook,* was asked what makes the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, so powerful.

"It's the truth about what that society was like.  It's a savage portrait.  People think of Huckleberry Finn as a children's book.  It's not.  I mean, children understand it sometimes better than adults, because they don't complicate it.  But it's a savage book about a certain society which produced some of the worst inequalities and brutalities that exist in our present society, and it's a truthful portrait."

~ Mark Twain An Illustrated Biography, G. Ward., D. Duncan, K. Burns, Knopf, 2001.

*American actor Hal Holbrook (b. 1925) performed a one-man show about Mark Twain.
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