Cruising the Mississippi River creates a romantic image of 19th Century Americana, reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi . Es...

Mark Twain in front of his boyhood home in Hannibal (1902); public domain image Mark Twain’s wry wit and quick humor made him a celebrity in...

I'm currently in the midst of book deadlines and preparing for a slide presentation at the library in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, m...