“Free At Last” Comes To The North Chatham Free Library

In 1874, Mark Twain’s cook, Mary Ann Cord, a former slave, told Twain and his family her history of cruelty, family loss and ultimate survival. Twain was so moved, he wrote it down, “repeated word for word as I heard it,” and that story was published in The Atlantic Magazine as “A True Story.”
Dr. John Cooley, a Mark Twain scholar, along with Carline Murphy and Azouke Legba, bring that story to life with a dramatic reading at the North Chatham Free Library on Sunday, October 23, at 3 pm.
The Library is located at 4287 Route 203 in the hamlet of North Chatham; the phone number is 518-766-3211. This program is free and open to the public. and is presented by the NC Free Library Literature & the Arts Series and made possible with support from the Hudson River Bank Foundation.