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07/09/11 In 'Once Upon a River' by Bonnie Jo Campbell, a teenage girl comes of age by learning how to navigate the world by way of a river, but unlike the story of Huckleberry Finn, the girl's experience has more perils. In 'Once Upon a River' by Bonnie Jo Campbell, a teenage girl comes of age by learning how to navigate the world by way of a river, but unlike the story of Huckleberry Finn, the girl's ...
06/30/11 In the second act of the musical "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a young Huck Finn has staged his own death, and is on a raft going down the Mississippi River with Jim, a run-away slave. They take stock of the worlds they came from and are introspective with the haunting "World's Apart," noting:
05/06/11 MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Mud Island, which juts into the Mississippi, pays homage to the mighty river with an elaborate scale model of it, a museum about its history, and a paddlewheel steamboat that looks like something straight out of "Huckleberry Finn."
05/05/11 Mud Island, which juts into the Mississippi, pays homage to the mighty river with an elaborate scale model of it, a museum about its history, and a paddlewheel steamboat that looks like something straight out of "Huckleberry Finn."
05/05/11 Mud Island, which juts into the mighty Mississippi, pays homage to the Big Muddy with an elaborate scale model of the river, a museum about its history, and a paddlewheel steamboat that looks like something straight out of "Huckleberry Finn."
03/22/11 Woodbury High School teachers and students were prominently featured Sunday in a CBS "60 Minutes" piece examining the use of the N-word in Mark Twain's classic "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." A national debate emerged in recent months when a publisher in Alabama said he's eliminating all N-word references in a reprint the book. It's now in the public domain, so he doesn't need permission to ...
03/19/11 A panel discussion about censorship and Mark Twain's classic novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in Quincy University 's MacHugh Theatre.
03/18/11 The man behind the new expurgated version of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn will appear on 60 Minutes Sunday.
02/26/11 Have you been following the "Huckleberry Finn" controversy? A new edition of this book -- combined in one volume with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," which is also, of course, by Mark Twain -- has replaced all 219 instances of the "n" word with "slave," and the instances of "injun" with "Indian." Publishers Weekly ran a factual article in advance of publication, and one online comment in ...
02/24/11 Contra Costa Civic Theatre -- Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a play adapted from the novel, through March 13, $15-$24, 951 Pomona Ave.
02/18/11 Michael Gwost likes to joke, "I think I'm part boat." When he was 10, he amazed his classmates by building a large-scale working model of Old Ironsides. Three years later, he constructed his own Huckleberry Finn-style raft for summer sailing in Minnesota.
02/16/11 Commentator Tom Dodge takes issue with the new edition of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" - the one without the N-word.
02/14/11 The Constitution, like Huckleberry Finn, is in many ways a reflection of its time.
02/11/11 A big effort has gone into staging the Tony Award-winning musical "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which opens Feb. 11 at the Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito.
01/19/11 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains 219 uses of the "n" word. Next month, the publisher NewSouth Books will release a new edition of the novel that replaces each use of the racial slur with the word "slave." Colorado College English Professor Barry Sarchett teaches a class specifically on Huck Finn, race and censorship. He says revisions of Twains work are nothing new. "The Boston ...
01/12/11 What do you get when you cross education expert, author and NYU professor Diane Ravitch with the HBO series The Wire , and then throw in the Huckleberry Finn controversy? A smart questioning of why it is that we censor the language and ideas that students are taught in school, even as we refuse to deal with the controversial things kids are exposed to in real life. Ravitch is the author of the ...
01/08/11 I see opportunity amid the outrage. An Alabama publisher's decision to excise the N-word from a new edition of Mark Twain's classic novel "Huckleberry Finn" has prompted criticism nationwide.
01/08/11 TOM SAWYER and Huckleberry Finn are famed for being mischievous, but it isn't their antics which got them in trouble with a Twain scholar who is replacing the N-word in the Mark Twain books.
01/08/11 An Alabama professor is set to release a new edition of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," without the "N" word.
01/07/11 A Mark Twain scholar who recommended substituting the "N word" and the word "injun" in an edited version of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" said Thursday he wanted to prevent the classic novel from being removed from schools nationwide.
01/07/11 "That is just the way with some people," says Huckleberry Finn in Mark Twain's eponymous novel, published in 1885. "They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." ... | 
