Jim Greene is not an academic Dickens scholar, but he plays Dickens and runs the Dickens Christmas Festival in Skaneateles. In this holiday version of the Campbell Conversations, he talks - often in the character of Dickens - about the meaning and the writing of "A Christmas Carol," the Christmas holidays, and his experiences in the town. Given the stark portrayals of poverty in his writing, what would Dickens have made of the Occupy Wall Street Movement? Here’s one person’s take. All in all, the conversation contains holiday wisdom worthy of Dickens’s tale.
