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The quiet little town of Hannibal, Missouri is a tribute to the great author, remembered as a white-haired gentleman with a big mustache and a white suit. His love of the Mississippi River and his clever literary style made him one of the lengendary figures of America. Mark Twain's boyhood home is filled with reminders that Tom Sawyer is patterned after Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). His mother was the inspiration for Tom's Aunt Polly, and his siblings were the models for Tom's cousins. Becky Thatcher is strikingly similar to Mark Twain's friend, Laura Hawkins, on whom he had a crush as a boy. We would have liked to walk through Mark Twain Cave, like Tom and Becky did, but we ran out of time. There really is a lot to see in this small town. |
) ) "We
visited the house Mark Twain lived in when he was a boy. It's very much
like the house where Tom lived in the book 'Tom Sawyer'. Norman Rockwell
visited Hannibal when he was asked to paint pictures for the story. He used
Mark Twain's house in some of the pictures."--Amanda |
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Tom
Sawyer
(1973) Stars Johnny Whittaker, Jodie Foster
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) "At
the new Mark Twain Museum I pretended to be a steamboat captain
on the Mississippi River. Mark Twain left Hannibal at age 17 and trained
to be a riverboat pilot. He got his license when he was 24."--Harrison |
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) ) ) With
a perfect whitewashed fence, it was hard to not pass up this photo opportunity.
Without a copy of Rockwell's painting with us, we were surprised at the
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After
a day in Hannibal, it's easy to confuse the names "Mark Twain"
and "Tom Sawyer". They seem to be one in the same.
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G.
Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, "Mark Twain"
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer