Growing up, Chet Hawkins became very familiar with the restaurant business – it was all he ever knew. His parents, Rick and Leanne Hawkins, have been involved in La Crosse’s restaurant scene since the ...

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.

A few years before his death, Mark Twain wandered into a local library that refused to put The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on its shelves on the grounds that it was damaging to schoolchildren. When ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Inspired by Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, HUCKA examines safe ...

Upstate Writes Book Festival returns to Cohoes Public Library with over 50 authors The second annual Upstate Writes Book Festival will be held at the Cohoes Public Library on Saturday. NYS Assemblyman ...

Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), in 1904, was showing a photograph to a friend, explaining, “the colored man (sic) … is John T. Lewis, a friend of mine. These many years-thirty-four-in fact. He was my father ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Huck Finn’s Playland is opening on Saturday, May 3 for the 2025 season. The park is located on Erie Boulevard in Albany. Now in its 73rd year, the amusement park features 17 ...

Huck Finn’s Playland is making some changes ahead of its opening this year. Now in its 73rd year, the amusement park features 17-rides, and a number of them have been refurbished for the season. Scene ...

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Although sometimes criticized for its grammatical errors, vulgarities and racial epithets, Mark Twain’s 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn inspired worldwide praise and numerous spin-offs, ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...