About two weeks ago I had the esteemed pleasure of seeing Big River at The Wetumpka Depot. I found myself cackling one minute and fighting back tears the next. Getting to watch some of my actor friends portray the outlandish characters also was highly entertaining.

The story of Big River, based on the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, was written in 1884. And yet, even with its age and language style, which now sounds formal and chock-full of racially charged references, it is a touching tale about dissolving the racial divide. Let’s face it; back then, the racial divide was as deep and as wide as the Grand Canyon.