This summer I will travel to the landmarks of significance to Twain’s life and work. For my trip, I will begin in the east from before “lighting out to the territories”, as Twain said, and heading west. While its safe to say these places have changed since Mark Twain’s time, I have a feeling much of the culture, beauty and humor he found in these places still exist today.
FOR EXAMPLE!
Mark Twain on Washington, DC:
My doctor told me that if I wanted my three score and 10, I must go to bed early, keep out of social excitements, and behave myself. You can't do that in Washington. Nobody does.
- Quoted in interview in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here is my summer itinerary with the books I’ve read in preparation for my journey and the tours, places and sights I plan to see while in these towns. If you know of somewhere else great I should visit in these places, please tell me!
June 16th New York City and Hartford, Connecticut
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
Walking tour of Twain’s New York, The Mark Twain House and Museum, Grant’s Tomb
July 24th Hannibal, Missouri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, workshop on Mark Twain, sightseeing the locations that inspired his books
July 29th Salt Lake City, Utah and Virginia City, Nevada
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Echo Canyon, Green River, Offices of the Territorial Enterprise, Lake Tahoe
I will be updating my blog from where I am so you too can experience Twain this summer and in between my trips I will entertain you with fun facts, stories and quotes that amuse me from Mark Twain’s life. I look forward to sharing this adventure with you!
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. - Mark Twain
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