A Trip to the Mark Twain Boyhood Hometown
April 11, 2015
Buddhist Light International Association St. Louis Chapter held an “American
Culture Spring Day Trip” on April 11 to visit the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and
Museum in Hannibal. Around 60 people from St. Louis and Kansas City participated in
the trip.
About 60 people from
St. Louis and Kansas
City participated in the
trip.
Local high school
students dressed up
as Mark Twain and
Becky Thatcher and
performed a skit
from the book “The
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn”
to welcome visitors.
Shu-Lan Lee introduced everyone to the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the original home of Tom Blankenship, a
character in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
Children played with the fake paint on the wall, another story section in the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
Visiting the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse.
In the museum, a little girl is “voyaging” with Mark Twain in the interaction map of Mediterranean.
The boyhood hometown of American’s greatest writer Mark Twain still maintains the beauty and
simplicity of all American style small towns.