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Hannibal Missouri

Age is mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. (Mark Twain)

Photos taken on our driving trip to Branson Missouri in 2008.

The most notable reason to visit Hannibal is Mark Twain. The town is very proud of its relationship with him and has preserved many of the buildings. 

Museum properties includes eight properties: six properties are on the National Register of Historic Places, and two exciting, interactive museums whose collections include fifteen original Norman Rockwell paintings, Mark Twain's Oxford gown, and many priceless artifacts.

Samuel Clemens took his pen name ‘Mark Twain’ from his early career as a steamboat pilot. If shallow water measured two fathoms (3.6 meters)—deep enough to navigate—the crewmen bellowed “mark twain.”

 A self-guided tour of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum properties gives you the chance to explore the Hannibal of Samuel Clemens' childhood and experience the beloved stories he created as Mark Twain through the power of his imagination.

 

The exhibits are really well done. These are just a few of the pictures we took.

Half a dozen buildings near the river that have been faithfully preserved, including the tidy, two-story white clapboard house where the family lived in the 1840s; the home of Laura Hawkins, who was the model for Becky Thatcher; the office where his father, J.M. Clemens, practised law; and the fetchingly old-fashioned Grant’s Drug Store with the Pilaster House on the floor above, where the family lived for nine months after J.M. went bankrupt in 1847.