One advantage to all my recent travel is I got to see Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri and his grave in Elmira, New York.
Twain is buried in the Langdon family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery. Olivia Langdon, Samuel Clemens' wife, was the daughter of a prominent mover and shaker of Elmira. Gabrilowitsch is Ossip Gabrilowitsch, concert pianist, founding director of the Detroit Symphony, and husband of Twain's daughter Clara Clemens.
Anyone care to guess the height of the Twain-Gabrilowitsch monument? Hint: It is an appropriate, safe, height.
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