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Museum board taps Rapp as new director
The Hannibal Courier-Post· 3 days agoAs Megan Rapp, newly named executive director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, looks out upon Main Street from her second-story office window,...
Parson visits Hannibal for book signing
The Hannibal Courier-Post· 6 days agoGov. Mike Parson visited the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal to speak and sign his book “No Turnin' Back.” Dozens of residents came to...
Book Club: Discuss ‘James,’ by Percival Everett, With Us
New York Times· 3 days agoFor The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
Mark Twain was once given a pocket watch engraved, “Governor of the Third House.” - Calaveras...
Calaveras Enterprise· 6 days agoNow unless you’re from Carson City, you might be wondering why. So I’m going to set out here to tell...
She invented Mother’s Day — then waged a lifelong campaign against it
Anchorage Daily News· 1 day agoWhile dining at a Philadelphia tearoom owned by her friend John Wanamaker, Anna Jarvis ordered a...
Mark Twain Lake hosting Kid's Fishing Day
The Hannibal Courier-Post· 5 days agoTo celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake is hosting Kid's Fishing Day on Saturday, June 8 from ...
Hellert: The case of the jumping frog
telegraphherald.com· 7 days agoCharles Clemmens arrived in Dubuque on April 15, 1874. When the usher asked him to remove his legs and feet from the railing, he assailed the usher and...
Our greatest American, and our worst ones
Courthouse News Service· 4 days agoThis will be a rather long wind-up to a wonderful sentence with which Sam Clemens’ wife Livy admonished him as he scribbled a response to a preacher who had invited Mark & ...
Opinion: Comedy’s Biggest Prize Has Shrinking Ambitions
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSince 1998, the center has also hosted a step-sibling event in the spring specifically for...
Carthage High School seniors unearth time capsule buried during kindergarten
KSNF Joplin via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCARTHAGE, Mo. — Some area high school seniors were celebrated in a unique way, Thursday. Carthage...
