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MARK TWAIN'S MEMPHIS; MY, HOW IT'S CHANGED.(Stars)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20070401
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Byline: Walt Wasilewski Staff writer

Mark Twain loved Memphis. He steamed past the Tennessee city on the Mississippi River frequently between 1857 and 1861 as a riverboat pilot. The city's compassionate response to the explosion of the riverboat Pennsylvania in 1858, in which his brother, Henry, was fatally injured, touched him deeply. And Twain stopped in Memphis again in the spring of 1882, when he was researching his history of the river, "Life on the Mississippi," published in 1883. He said he had a grand time.

There are at least four spots in the city he mentions in ...

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