Aw, c’mon now. Everyone knows Mark Twain, a.k.a Samuel Clemens, grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, then learned to pilot steamships on the Mississippi River, right?
Right.
But, when he married and settled down, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Which is where he wrote most of his books. How else could he write A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court if he’d never been a Yankee?
Today we toured the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford. The house was more than I wanted to tackle but Dave took the the Main House tour.
While I spent my time in the museum.
The museum has a film, two galleries, and a gift shop. We both started with the film which was excerpts from the Ken Burns documentary thus was very well done. Then, while Dave took the 1 1/2 hour house tour I spent more than an hour in one gallery then toured the gift shop. Did you know Garrison Keillor once broadcast A Prairie Home Companion from the Mark Twain House? I listened to a sample of that program on their CD sampler system. It was, of course, funny.
Neither of us made it to the second gallery.
If you go, allow more than the two hours we did. But leave your camera at home. They allow no picture taking in either building. The photos here are lifted from their website at http://www.marktwainhouse.org/. But do go. I promise you’ll be entertained.
TTYL,
Linda
We know Mark Twain. Well, not personally. However, Terry was originally from Hannibal, MO. Does that count?