No information. Sam was invited to speak to the Wednesday Morning Club at the Academy of Music. Sam gave a reading or made remarks at the Wednesday Morning Club, Pittsfield, at the invitation of Rose Terry Cooke (see Jan. 26 from Cooke). Like most of the other engagements for this period, it was an event held for charity. (March 6, 1889)
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Prairie du Chien was incorporated as the Borough of Prairie des Chiens on September 17, 1821, by the secretary of the Michigan Territory.[13] It is the only municipality in Wisconsin other than Green Bay to have been known as a borough, rather than a city, town, or village.
A Ravenna landmark got a visit from a 19th century author and humorist whose name is still well known.
Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, visited the second floor of the East Main Street landmark. The structure is under renovation in Ravenna by Coleman Professional Services, which plans apartments and retail on the site.
Kathy Myers of Coleman said a local historian provided Coleman with a research packet outlining Twain’s visit in 1869.
Interviewed 7 December 1884, Room 222 Powers Hotel "Mark Twain Encountered", Rochester Herald, 8 December 1884, 8 Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#24)
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This station, similar in construction to Brigham Young’s Beehive House, stood where the Salt Lake Tribune Building now stands, at 143 South Main. Because of recent street beautification, the monument has been moved to the south. According to Sir Richard Burton, the station was one of the better facilities along the Overland Trail for food and lodging. Horace Greeley and Mark Twain were among the guests. This was a home station for Pony Express riders. It was a long, two-story structure with a veranda in front and a large livestock yard in the rear.
Interviewed in Australia in 1895, Twain remarked on Robert Lewis Stevenson as “… a great, a very great writer”. Twain had read Stevenson’s novel, The Wrecker. The interviewer noted “...He had read The Wrecker—which depicts the commercial and social life of San Francisco in such daring colors—but so long ago that he had almost forgotten it, but he remembered that part especially.”
From The Wrecker, Chapter VIII, by Robert Louis Stevenson