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HANNIBAL, Mo. -- For more than 60 years, Hannibal teenagers have portrayed two of American literature's most iconic characters, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher. Those selected to portray the literary ...

The famous “Tom (hearts) Becky” painted fence is now gone from Tom Sawyer Island at Magic Kingdom. The iconic fence was defaced just days before Tom Sawyer Island permanently closed. It was next to ...

With three songs cut and a strong new opening number added by the end of its first week (of two) in New Haven, Conn., "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" has been making good use of its pre-Broadway tryout ...

Don’t let Tom fool you — a Saturday afternoon of fence painting is a drag. Then again, Tom is a great salesman, and by the time he convinces his friends to take his place at the fence, audiences in ...

“Ain’t Life Fine,” from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” That devil-may-care attitude sums up what has made Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer” one of the most beloved juvenile characters in literature for 130 ...

A century after Mark Twain's death, the author's most famous creation, the mischievous Tom Sawyer, is the symbol for a new campaign — to foster another generation of readers in Yuba-Sutter. The ...

The fact that so many youths never are introduced to Mark Twain’s acclaimed “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), and deeper themes within follow-up novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885), ...