TravelWorld International Magazine Fall 2022
The magazine written and photographed by North American Travel Journalists Association members.
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Mark Twain (contd.)<br />
One of the rooms at Mark<br />
Twain’s boyhood home.<br />
nother place you will find Mark Twain almost literally is at the Mark<br />
Twain Cave. Young Samuel Clemens played in the cave throughout his<br />
childhood, and it is featured in several of his books. You can take an<br />
hour-long guided tour of the cave and see his signature on the rock<br />
wall. Though it has been there for years, his signature was only<br />
discovered in 2019. The walk is easy, and the cave is well lit.<br />
Another famous man left his mark on the cave. Jesse James used it as a<br />
hideout at one time. His signature is signed and dated September 22, 1879.<br />
The hideout place is marked so you can view but you cannot descend to the<br />
place where his signature is due to danger.<br />
The “Cave Place” where<br />
Jesse James hid out.<br />
Reenactment of Mark Twain by Jim Waddell<br />
at the Cave Theater<br />
While there, be sure to see “The Life and Times of Mark Twain,” a one-man<br />
presentation at the cave theater by Jim Waddell. He entertained us for one<br />
hour with stories taken directly from Twain’s speeches and writings.<br />
There’s even a Mark Twain Dinette where you can enjoy some of his favorite<br />
foods.<br />
The Haunted Hannibal Ghost Tours gave us a darker story about the cave’s<br />
history. It was owned by Joseph Nash McDowell during Twain’s life. He was<br />
somewhat of a mad scientist and wanted to experiment with petrification<br />
of dead bodies. When his daughter died, he embalmed her and placed the<br />
body in a copper cylinder. He suspended the cylinder on bars in the back of<br />
his cave to test his theory of human petrification. Naturally, Hannibal’s kids<br />
discovered the cylinder, and it became a rite of passage. Residents learned<br />
of body and convinced him to give his daughter a decent burial.<br />
Hannibal History Museum is at the start of the ghost tour. It tells of these<br />
characters and many more.<br />
Daniel Quarles AKA Jim in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn has a small but<br />
detailed Jim’s Journey of his own. It tells the history of the real-life Quarles.<br />
“Unsinkable” Molly Brown<br />
Diorama at Hannibal History<br />
Museum showing the famous<br />
fence painting in Adventures of<br />
Tom Sawyer<br />
omen are not left out here. Molly Brown is renown for her surviving<br />
the sinking Titanic. She was immortalized in the movie and play,<br />
The Unsinkable Molly Brown. What many people don’t know was she<br />
was active in social causes like women’s rights. You can tour her home.<br />
“Jim’s Journey” Museum has<br />
information about the real life<br />
of Jim Daniel Quarles<br />
Molly Brown’s House<br />
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