Ep. 29 - The Life and Afterlife of Mark Twain
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Mark Twain authored some of the most beloved stories in American literature. Everyone knows the story of Tom Sawyer, his buddy Huck Finn and about whitewashing wood fences. Not many people know the details of the life of Mark Twain though. Twain's life was one of literary genius, but it was also one of financial ruin and immense pain when it came to his family life. The Twain's owned a home in Hartford, Connecticut and Twain claimed that the years that he and his family lived in the Hartford home were the happiest years of their life. They would eventually move from the home, but did their spirits actually leave the home? Twain was a lifelong skeptic, but is he now a true believer as his spirit continues to roam on this side of the veil? Moment in Oddity features the Spider-tailed Horned Viper and This Day in History features the eruption of the Huaynaputina Volcano.
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| 1:07.0 | Hello you spook-tacular people welcome to this 29th episode of the |
| 1:16.0 | history ghost bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your |
| 1:20.8 | host Diane and this is Denise and today we're going to talk about the life and the |
| 1:26.1 | afterlife of a great author Mark Twain. I'm looking forward to this Denise I've always |
| 1:31.8 | been a big fan of Mark Twain. I have right next to my Edgar |
| 1:35.2 | Al and Poe anthology is my Mark Twain anthology with almost everything he ever |
| 1:39.7 | wrote. It doesn't have everything because I got this years ago and they have still been making discoveries of Mark Twain's writings up into a few years ago. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh, wow. Have you read the whole thing? |
| 1:52.0 | No, I have not read everything that he wrote. |
| 1:55.0 | Busted! |
| 1:57.0 | I read all the highlights, shall we say. |
| 2:00.0 | The bridge, or bridge notes or whatever those things are. |
| 2:03.2 | The one thing that I didn't really know was a whole lot about Mark Twain. |
| 2:06.4 | You know, when you ask most people about Mark Twain, what's the first thing you think |
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