“The river community is best known as the 19th-century boyhood home of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain). The settings of Twain's novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are inspired by this town. Numerous historical sites are associated with Mark Twain and places depicted in his fiction.” Wikipedia

My family stopped briefly in Hannibal when I was junior high age, nothing was open that day, and I have always wanted to return. After a not-so-pleasant beginning to my stay (you can read about this in my blog post), I found the town to be picturesque and intriguing.

I toured the two big attractions, Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home & Museum and the Mark Twain Cave, but enjoyed exploring other sites like Riverview Park and Lover’s Leap. I took a one hour Hannibal Trolley tour, which gave a lot of historical information about the town. I trekked up the steps to the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse (I need to get into better shape) and discovered a not talked about gem, The Hannibal Museum, which had several interesting exhibits, including tributes to some other notable people from Hannibal, like the Unsinkable Molly Brown.