Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts… Underlining Mark Twain ... and the Mississippi. For you cannot understand Twain ...

The American Duchess, a luxurious river cruise paddle-wheeler, recently sailed past Osceola's Sans Souci Landing, evoking the ...

Mississippi is considered the birthplace of blues music. The Delta region is sprinkled with landmarks dedicated to the ...

It went from being considered vulgar shortly after it was published to a masterpiece decades later. Still, it’s one of the ...

Influenced by the Mississippi River, which coursed by his boyhood ... Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

It showcases the daily life of towboat crews and the diverse cargoes transported, illustrating how the river system is busier and more efficient today than during Mark Twain's era. Keywords ...

Mark Twain, of course ... Huck’s beautiful and lyrically flowing description of a sunrise on the Mississippi. (“Then the river softened up, away off, and warn’t black any more, but gray ...

On an empyreal spring evening in 1858, with the oleander in bloom upriver and early jasmine scenting the wind, the steersman for the Mississippi ... his literature. Mark Twain’s description ...

But about 1857, on a trip down the Mississippi ... began to write again -- and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms ...