Chambers Street Theatre Archives

And it's back to "Huckleberry Finn" for Chapter 6 and some of 7.  Pap, Huck's father, has kidnapped Huck and taken him to a remote cabin.  Living off the land is covered and the hard, but free life away from town is shared.  

Today we address the foggy world of mental health.  Starting with "Ward 6" by Anton Chekhov, who was a doctor and saw the treatment given in the 1870's in Russia, and then moving on to Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Detective."  The Twain work is one of the writings of Twain that was not published during his life, and is now coming to light through The University of California Press.  Listen in for two 1800 treatments before we knew what we know now.

"The Wind in the Willows" is one of my favorite, children of all ages, books.  Now for the hunt.  The author of this book was a young man during the First World War when 58,000 men were lost on the first day of the Somme.  These were 58,000 men from the British Isles, leaving 58,000 women without husbands then and in days to come.  The war books don't talk about that.  Well, our author was there on the front lines at The Somme.  This questionable record of 58,000 men lost still stands as the most men lost on the first day of any known war.  

(If you haven't guessed, it's A.A. Milne)

And now for the Winter Holidays, and Merry Christmas to all.  The KDRT station is closed so some past show is being automatically played, and I haven't the faintest idea what show I put in the system a few years ago. Enjoy whatever it is, and Happy New Year!