FLORIDA, MISSOURI
MARK TWAIN LAKE
MARK TWAIN BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
I drove down here to arrive just a few minutes before they closed, but I managed to see just about everything. The woman there explained quite a bit to me and insisted that I see the origial manuscript of Tom Sawyer and not simply concentrate on Twain's birth house. The house itself was assembled inside a huge modern struture for display and safe keeping. It was two rooms and very basic. Included was the bed that Twain most likely was born in as well as the cradle that rocked him.
Also there were a few pieces of furniture from the Connecticutt house that were very interesting and accessible with no glass partitions making them seem distant. The attendant said they would soon have to use glass because they could not stop people, and especially kids, from crawling up to see the pieces and touch them as well as going in the house itself. Some people even tried for a few slivers of the siding as souvenirs.
The museum was situated on a beautiful lake. All was deserted the afternoon I went. Behind the museum I visited the small Florida graveyard to try to find Quarles family monuments. The old monuments have been attacked by vandals and few have been repaired. Very near is a campground so I suppose kids camping there got rowdy. This place might have been very different in summer season when more people were about.
This was the only Quarles family stone I could find.
These huge and repetitive cliffs were very impressive.
MARK TWAIN LAKE
MARK TWAIN BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
I drove down here to arrive just a few minutes before they closed, but I managed to see just about everything. The woman there explained quite a bit to me and insisted that I see the origial manuscript of Tom Sawyer and not simply concentrate on Twain's birth house. The house itself was assembled inside a huge modern struture for display and safe keeping. It was two rooms and very basic. Included was the bed that Twain most likely was born in as well as the cradle that rocked him.
Also there were a few pieces of furniture from the Connecticutt house that were very interesting and accessible with no glass partitions making them seem distant. The attendant said they would soon have to use glass because they could not stop people, and especially kids, from crawling up to see the pieces and touch them as well as going in the house itself. Some people even tried for a few slivers of the siding as souvenirs.
The museum was situated on a beautiful lake. All was deserted the afternoon I went. Behind the museum I visited the small Florida graveyard to try to find Quarles family monuments. The old monuments have been attacked by vandals and few have been repaired. Very near is a campground so I suppose kids camping there got rowdy. This place might have been very different in summer season when more people were about.
This was the only Quarles family stone I could find.
These huge and repetitive cliffs were very impressive.
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