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 ...

Forty-three years ago this month, libraries around the country observed the first Banned Books Week. Its co-founder, Judith Krug, was the director of the American Library Association’s Office for ...

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.

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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 ...

Marcus Kwame Anderson, seen at Earthworld Comics in Albany, collaborated with author David F. Walker on “Big Jim and the White Boy.” Marcus Kwame Anderson's illustrations in "Big Jim and the White Boy ...

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THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE MCPHEETERS (544 pp.)—Robert Lewis Taylor—Doubleday ($4.50). For 2,000 miles and half a thousand pages, the Redskins keep coming. “We’ll stand them off,” says one embattled ...