Tom and Huck Statue - Hannibal MO
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Don.Morfe
N 39° 42.774 W 091° 21.474
15S E 640758 N 4397181
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are well-known and admired enough to merit a statue. The problem is that they're not real; they were created by author Mark Twain.
Waymark Code: WM15Q9J
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2022
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From the Roadside America website:
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are well-known and admired enough to merit a statue. The problem is that they're not real; they were created by author Mark Twain. But in 1926 the town of Hannibal decided to set a precedent and erect a statue of Tom and Huck anyway, reasoning that the two were based on Hannibal citizens who were real, and that if a town's most beloved characters are fictional, so what?
The statue was created by sculptor Frederick Hibbard, who had earlier sculpted a statue of real-person Twain for Hannibal. The two barefoot boys stand at the north end of town, overlooking its Main St. The statue's dedication was attended by Laura Hawkins Frazier (Twain's inspiration for another of his characters, Becky Thatcher) and Molly Brown, the unsinkable lady of the Titanic, who happened to be born in Hannibal and was back for a visit."
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