My son has shelves of books that he has read or was assigned to read in school. Many of the titles I am acquainted with as I had to read them when I was a student; others I've never heard of. One day while packing some of his things away I decided to catch up with reading some of the classic books I've missed reading along the way. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of those books. I chose to read it first because of the author. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, moved to Ohio where she married and later moved back to Connecticut. I've even been in her Hartford...
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