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Tag Archives: Elmira

Mark Twain’s Grave on All Souls Day.

14-Nov-12

I wrote on this blog about a trip of mine to Hannibal, Missouri, the adorable little river-town where Mark Twain spent his boyhood. In our imaginations the writer is so associated with the Mississippi River that I believe it it something of a crime that he is not buried along its course. It is of […]

Heavenly Touch.

11-Nov-12

Pastor Jones Fashions, Elmira, New York.  Shuttered.

The Room Where Tom Sawyer was written.

04-Nov-12

The Mark Twain studio, an enclosed gazebo Twain used for writing while summering at his wife’s family’s farm in Elmira, New York.