Driven over 3000 miles and mor to come.
I am In Hannibal, Mo. I was going into the MARK TWAIN Museum and this sign was on the sidewalk in front of the museum. Since I have been on a steam boat cruise on the Mississippi River, with this company, I knew what this sign meant. People on the cruise will board a bus and travel around Hannibal at different stops where attractions are, then hop off and hop on the buses.
In this photo you will see one of the three buses, that travel with the steam paddle wheel ship, This is the AMERICAN DUCHESS. My daughter-in-law, Janet Nall is employed, with the company that owns this ship. Janet works in the legal department of the company HORNBLOWER.
Samuel Clemens at some point in his life became known as MARK TWAIN and I do not know the year when this happen. Hannibal is all about Mark Twain. This museum is all about Mark Twain. The down town are is all about Mark Twain. You very seldom see his real name mention. Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens and Samuel Clemens is Mark Twain. This photo show Mark Twain reading, While his two favorite characters listen, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
The first floor of the museum have different scenes from different books , he wrote. This shows the raft that Huck and his friend Jim took down the Mississippi. A short clip of the movie 'Huck Finn' played in the background.
This photo tells about his older brother Orion and Mark took a trip to Nevada, a1700 miles to Carson City. This trip Provided a wealth of stories and experiences that Mark used in his western writings. He named the book 'Roughing it'.
This made to look like a stage coach and a short clip of Rough IT' played, while you road on the stage coach.
They had made a replicate of a pilot house o a steam paddle wheel.
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This tells of the death of Mark Twain's brother, Henry, in explosion on THE PENNSYLVANIA.
This names all the steamboats and the year that Marked Twain piloted them. There are 21 steamboats.
In 1935, NORMAN ROCKWELL was chosen to do illustrate editions of 'THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER' and 'ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN'. This walls shows 9 illustrations that Norman did.
On the stree of Hannibal they had this flags posted with Mark Twain's sayings. This one reads
'Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself'.
This is the boy hood home of SAMUEL CLEMENS and MARK TWAIN. The photo also show the fence, that TOM SAWYER got all his friends to paint.
This talks little of Mark Twain's Parents, Jane and John Clemens. They started out in Kentucky, went to Tennessee and then to Missouri. They had 6 slaves. John failed tp prosper as a lawyer, farmer and storekeeper. The family grew poorer with each move. They sold all but one slave. At Florida, Missouri, John was elected to the county court and had the title of 'Judge', which he kept. It was in Florida, Missouri, Samuel Clemens was born. SO MUCH MORE ON MARK TWAIN!! To Be Continued...
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