Heading west from Springfield and what did we see. Hannibal Missouri...now lets see...thinking...Mark Twain. Just after the bridge going over the Mississippi was the exit to Hannibal.
This unplanned stop turned into a good find.
Hannibal is one of those towns that has taken advantage of having a famous personality associated with the town.
For those familiar with Sam Clemens stories, the characters bear maybe a bit of truth about some real boyhood friends.
The home of childhood friend Laura Hawkins...aka Becky Thatcher.
Becky and Grammie
Grampy and Grammie
Grampy and Grammie got conned into whitewashing the fence.
Tom Sawyer's home.
Tom and Huck
Downtown there is a Mark Twain Museum. On display there are numerous sketches and paintings by Normal Rockwell. Rockwell was asked by George Macy, editor of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to do the sketches for the books. In his creating the sketches he went to Hannibal to see the place. To make the sketches more realistic he made a deal with a farmer to buy him a new set of clothing in exchange for the ones he was wearing. Several farmers and town folks later, he had what he needed.
One painting (Fence Painting) ended up in the Farnsworth collection when it was bequeathed to the Farnsworth Museum by a private donor.Today it is in the Twain Museum on Loan.
We took some pictures of the Mississippi River from the Lover's Leap location.
Steamboat cruises and done on a daily basis.
Lover's Leap
A great find and a great day!
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