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Event:

Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Discussion

Date:

March 25th, 2010.

Time:

7:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Public Library

Contact:

860-285-1918

Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Discussion

The Big Read Celebrates Mark Twain at the Windsor Public Library

As part of the Hartford area Big Read and to honor the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death, Windsor Public Library will host special book discussion programs highlighting 2 books by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer will be the featured book on Thursday, March 25th, at 7PM. Then on Thursday, April 8th, at 7pm the discussion will focus on Twains' biography of his early years, Life on the Mississippi.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is not merely a literary classic. It is part of the American imagination. More than any other work in our culture it established America's vision of childhood. Mark Twain created two fictional boys, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who still seem more real than most of the people we know. In a still puritanical nation, Twain reminded adults that children were not angels, but fellow human beings, and perhaps all the more lovable for their imperfections and bad grooming. Neither American literature nor America has ever been the same.

0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more thoroughly described than in this work. Told with insight, humor, and candor, Life on the Mississippi is an American classic.

Local scholar/teachers, Maureen Mazzaccaro and Melanie Sola will lead the discussions. Copies of both books are available for loan at the Windsor Public Library. Call the library reference desk at 285-1918 to register for either program, or for more information.

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. Hartford Public Library, with Hartford Stage Company, Mark Twain House & Museum, and other community partners are putting on this great program. The Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. Many public libraries in the Hartford area will be hosting a variety of Mark Twain programs throughout the next few months. For more information about the Big Read program go to www.neabigread.org. A complete calendar of local events can be found online at http://www.hplct.org/bigread/

Windsor Public Library programs are co-sponsored by the Windsor Library Association. Windsor Public Library, 323 Broad Street, Windsor, CT, 860-285-1918.

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