Chambers Street Theatre Archives

Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" for a young audience, but all ages have enjoyed this book. We are just beginning to read the whole book and you can listen without trying to read the accents as Twain wrote them. Ruth reads as Twain wrote the way people spoke at the time, and it was hard going the first time I read "Huck Finn" in my youth.

This week is the seventh reading about Hawaii by Mark Twain from his book "Roughing It." We have covered his visit to the Islands, and all of his hikes to the bottom of volcanos alive or dead. This completes our readings of most of the 460 some pages of "Roughing It." I