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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Meeting the Twain


Mark Twain Cave    (Photo by Jonathunder)
“Twainiacs” (fans of Mark Twain) well remember Tom Sawyer’s cave.

Turns out that it was also integral to the childhood of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Twain’s actual name).  So for years, people have searched for Clemens’ long-lost signature upon the walls of this Hannibal, Missouri sanctuary.

Kevin Mac Donnell and Alan Gribben (two Twain scholars) have recently verified that a signature discovered there by Linda Coleberd and Cindy Lovell is indeed Twain’s.  How exciting to find this vestige of the real Tom Sawyer!   

Resources
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-decades-of-searching-mark-twains-signature-was-found-inside-a-famous-cave/ar-AAHUEbD?OCID=ansmsnnews11 

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