| "There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure." ~Mark Twain |
s a child
I did a great deal of reading. I also grew up in Stoddard, Wisconsin ... on the
Mississippi River. Mark Twain was the natural choice. I remember the wonders of the River
and how I loved it as I grew up. My dad was a commercial fisherman, until he could no
longer support a family working on the river. As I read Mark Twain, I was transported into
a different time, but filled with so many things that were familiar. I could almost
imagine the steamboats going up and down the river. And his humor was absolutely
wonderful! I read almost everything Twain wrote by the time I was in 8th grade. I was
forbidden to read Mark Twain in school. I couldn't resist the urge to laugh out loud ...
and to share what was so funny with somebody near.
| "It is noble
to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." ~Mark Twain |
have visited Hannibal, Missouri many times, and have also made trips to
Elmira [New York], Redding [Connecticut] and Hartford [Connecticut]. I have a fair
collection of old and new Mark Twain books. I continue to enjoy him very much. It is rare
that I take a trip without packing a volume of his stories. I hope you enjoy this
collection of links an quotes, and that you come to love Mark Twain as much as I do!
| "If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea." ~Mark Twain |
| "I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse." ~Mark Twain |
| İMMII
Rev. Patrick A. Umberger, in
Arcadia, Wisconsin USA. This appears as part of Father Pat's Place, http://frpat.com. . Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. |
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