Travel: Celebrate Mark Twain Centennial in Elmira
Tough times aside, civic boosters think this is one year when a bump in attendance is all but assured. Elmirans in period costume will ride in black horse-drawn carriages to Woodlawn Cemetery in an April 24 centennial reenactment of Twain's burial. ... It is 12 feet high, equal to two fathoms. He took his pen name from the two-fathom "mark twain" expression deckhands would shout to signal safe passage during his days as a Mississippi riverboat pilot. ...



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