Born on November 30
Birthdays of L.M. Montgomery and Mark Twain
Anne, Huck and a shared birthday.
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Where it comes from
This Story marks a shared birthday. Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, on 30 November 1835, grew up in Hannibal on the Mississippi, and wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
How it's celebrated
Readers visit Green Gables Heritage Place in Cavendish, part of Prince Edward Island National Park, and Montgomery's grave in the Cavendish cemetery. Twain's Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, and the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, welcome readers through the year.
Did you know
Twain's pen name is a riverboat call: 'mark twain' meant the water was two fathoms, about 3.7 metres, deep.
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