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Hartford's Mark Twain (or perhaps an impersonator, if the rumors prove true) will read at the end of September from one of his several books that were from time to time banned.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer will be featured at a Banned Books Read-Out at the Hartford Public Library on Thursday Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.
Besides Twain, those reading works that have been the subjects of censorship that ignores the First Amendment include Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and John Motley, chair of the Hartford School Building Committee.
Books tentatively scheduled for the reading list include, besides Tom Sawyer, the bestselling vampire novel Twilight and Yvonne Latty's In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive.
In Conflict inspired a 2007 play by Wilton High School drama students, Voices in Conflict, which they were not allowed to perform in school, but which was then performed off-Broadway and as a Connecticut Public Television special.
Matt Poland, executive director of Hartford Public Library, will be moderator.
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