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Entertainment in York Park ~ Day of 1000 Canoes   http://www.davidwice.ca/

Life as a Voyageur

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Pirate Sightings on The Grand River

The Neat L'l Bookshop ~ Mark Twain

Pirates on The Grand ~ York, Ontario

Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer

Team Colin

Ed Thompson, Volunteer, Assisting Canoeists

York Ontario, Day of 1000 Canoes ~ Tomorrow:  The Voyageur, Bagpiper, Batman and Scottie McKinnon all come to the festival.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen-name, Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835.  His life was as adventurous as any character in a novel.  Forced to leave school at the age of twelve when his father died, the young Sam worked as a journeyman printer, a gold prospector, a steam-boat pilot, a soldier, and finally, a journalist.  Having dubbed himself "Mark Twain" ~ the cry of a river pilot signifying that the water is two fathoms deep ~ he found enormous success as a writer.

Among his most celebrated titles are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Tom Sawyer.  Several generations later, referring to Tom Sawyer, Ernest Hemingway remarked, "All modern literature stems from this one book."

On Saturday, The Neat Little Bookshop will feature Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer in the festival event "Grand Attractions," York, ON.



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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