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Remembering Mark Twain, and his Bucolic Grave Site in Elmira, NY
/0 Comments/in Books & Writing, Personal History, Family, Friends, Education, Travels /by Philip TurnerPaying affectionate homage to Mark Twain, who died on this date in 1910, in Redding, CT, one day after Halley’s Comet’s close approach to Earth, a celestial visitor that also neared Earth around his birth in 1835. Here’s a photo I took of his grave a few summers ago at the lovely cemetery where he’s buried in Elmira, NY.