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Photos and captions by Kent Rasmussen unless otherwise noted.
Susan Harris talking about Mark Twain and Tasmania–about as un-Finnish as a presentation could get.
Susan Bailey signing copies of her book, The Twain Shall Meet, after delivering a keynote address
relating the moving story of the search for her true mother that led her to believe she is the daughter of
Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch and thus the great granddaughter of Samuel L. Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.
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On Saturday afternoon, Richard Henzel and John Pascal read a dialogue on Mark Twain’s autobiography
written by Victor Fischer and Ben Griffin for Mark Twain and Youth, a forthcoming book edited
by Kevin Mac Donnell and Kent Rasmussen (photo by Henry Sweets).
A conference highlight was the bus trip to Florida, the inland village in which Mark Twain was born in 1835.
This “Memorial Shrine” (also known as the Mark Twain Birthplace Museum) contains the house
in which Mark Twain was born. Opened in 1961, the museum is administered by Missouri State Parks.
There is some question about how much of the restored house is authentic,
but the structure is, in any case, an evocative re-creation of Mark Twain’s original home.
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