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Mark Twain once said: "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." Last week NBC's Project 20 movingly remembered what happened to Mark, from his Hannibal, Mo. boyhood in the 1840s to the day of his death, exactly 50 years ago. Mark Twain's America followed the technique of Project 20's earlier and equally successful Meet Mr. Lincoln, used some 1,000 old photographs to bring back the patch of U.S. history Samuel Clemens helped needle into place. The pictures of the Old West, which attracted Twain as both reporter...
Your story on the fascinating creations of Architect Victor Lundy comes as no surprise to his boyhood friends. Back in the years of our Bronx school days, everyone recognized his exceptional talents...
...Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet states the common truths of boyhood uncommonly well in this pleasant, unsentimental memoir...
...Donner has been ill, and he is perhaps a little unbalanced as well. The local graveyards were moved up to high ground when the valley was flooded, and as he stands before the graves of his family, Donner is swept away by memories. In his fevered imagination, his boyhood Unionville exists again. He walks the streets, peers into houses, recognizes old friends and acquaintances. He even visits his father's store, and there an old confusion leaves him helpless to speak his feelings. Like many a boy, he had never been able to bridge the distance between himself...
...Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet's unsentimental account of his boyhood in a rural village is rich in common truths uncommonly stated...