I, too, just finished Carkeet's article in the Smithsonian. I did
enjoy it, mainly; however, I was disappointed by Terrell Dempsey's
unfortunate comments about Twain and Hannibal.(Sorry for all of my
previous garbled posts.)


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Dustin Zima <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I, too, just finished Carkeet's article in the Smithsonian. I did enjoy it, mainly; however, I was disappointed by Terrell Dempsey's unfortunate comments about Twain and Hannibal.(Sorry for all of the garbled posts.)
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> Dustin Zima
> Elmira College
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arianne <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: TWAIN-L <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 1:22 am
>> Subject: Carkeet article in Smithsonian
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>> If it was mentioned here already, I missed it.  I just read -The Twain
>> Shall Meet- in the April 2014 Smithsonian magazine (my favorite.)  It was
>> fun to read since I
>> hope I might be somewhere on the Mississippi after a trip to New Orleans
>> in
>> February.
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>> Two details in it I didn't remember ever hearing before.  One was the
>> mention of a young Samuel Clemens applying for a stipend from some
>> Abolitionists and the other that he once was a stowaway on a river boat
>> when he was young.
>>
>> If any of you missed the article by David Carkeet, I recommend that you
>> check it out at Smithsonian.com.
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>> --
>> Arianne Laidlaw
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