"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told The Berkshire Edge. "He wrote that democracy is something we have to continue to work on and fight for. It’s an important underpinning of our country.”
There wasn't a single false note to be found in this company's interpretations, and so the story maintained its novelistic power through fidelity to Hugo's original intent.
