Mark Twain News

For years, the Cultural Arts Commission has been providing residents with summer entertainment, engaging musicians to strum and sing for them as the evening sun sets.

Taproot Theatre gets a number of things right in its staging of Big River , the 1985 musical that follows Huckleberry Finn and his runaway slave companion Jim as they raft down the Mississippi River.

It takes only a few moments sitting with Geoffery Simmons, a steady stream of eager yak gushing from his big grin, before I start to wonder: This chatty guy is going to be Jim? COMING UP AUTHOR: Music and ...

Travel The 19-room home Mark Twain lived in is intriguing in its own right F2 There is a house on Farmington Avenue in the city of Hartford in the state of Connecticut many claim as the birthplace of the modern ...

Friday, July 04, 2008 at 4:17 p.m. One of the major highlights of National Tom Sawyer Days is the Tom and Becky contest.

Friday, July 04, 2008 at 6:03 p.m. A familiar face can be seen in Hannibal's downtown streets.

Mark Twain is the pen name of the author responsible for classics such as Huckleberry Finn.

Barack Obama just delivered a speech on patriotism in Independence, Mo., hometown of what was once America's most powerful haberdasher, and offered a mild rebuke to Wesley Clark, who took on John McCain's ...

Clarksville, Mo., is a Tom Sawyer kind of town, not far from Mark Twain's Hannibal, actually, on the Mississippi River.

The Chemung County Chamber of Commerce's Trolley into Mark Twain Country Tours will begin Tuesday with the introduction of Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, who will be on hand to greet riders throughout opening ...

Jane Poe discovered her passion for reading in a one-room country school in Cass County, Michigan.

Some actors struggle to get into character, but that's not the case with George Frein.

The Dixie is excited to announce that it has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in Carroll County.

A note and a flower are seen on the star of comedian George Carlin on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood on Monday.

Author Joseph Cavano gave readers a glimpse of his artistic side at the recent G.R.I.T.S. book club meeting.

For the second time in two years, the Massanutten Regional Library has landed a "Big Read" grant, which, starting this fall, will put thousands of free books in the hands of Valley readers.

Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and other boldfaced names among the dead have something in common with living Americans in these hard financial times: Their homes are in jeopardy.

Would-be visitors are staying away from the town that relies heavily on the annual influx of 500,000 tourists as perception of the flood here is worse than the reality.

Southern Illinois' towns on the Mississippi River have been immortalized in Elzie Segar's Chester-inspired Popeye cartoons and Mark Twain's mention of Cairo in the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Between ...

Expressivo 1.4 - the latest version of the software that reads books - has been launched and is iPod and Mac compatible.