Christopher Reynolds visits “Mark Twain’s Hannibal, Mo.”
While I scanned the scene for signs of Muff Potter, Sweets, curator of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, quoted 'Tom Sawyer' from memory and told of the many 'Twainiacs' he's welcomed from Australia, England, Germany and Japan; the ones who wept; and the one who solemnly dipped a finger into the Mississippi, like a supplicant at a holy water font. As Sweets spoke, the wind rustled the sycamores and a train wailed in the distance. – from “A Visit to Mark Twain’s Hannibal, Mo.,” by Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
While I scanned the scene for signs of Muff Potter, Sweets, curator of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, quoted 'Tom Sawyer' from memory and told of the many 'Twainiacs' he's welcomed from Australia, England, Germany and Japan; the ones who wept; and the one who solemnly dipped a finger into the Mississippi, like a supplicant at a holy water font. As Sweets spoke, the wind rustled the sycamores and a train wailed in the distance. – from “A Visit to Mark Twain’s Hannibal, Mo.,” by Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
