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Rustic NY stirred Twain's Mississippi memories

ELMIRA, N.Y. – Huckleberry Finn sprang to life in a swirl of cheap cigar smoke at Mark Twain 's cozy hilltop cabin in upstate New York far from the Mississippi River . On the centenary of the author's death, Twainiacs will swarm Hannibal, Mo ., the river town of his boyhood that inspired a raft of literary gems, and Hartford, Conn., where in celebrated middle age he moved his family to a 19-room mansion transformed now into a tourist magnet. Only a few thousand visitors typically show up i... 03/13/2010 10:05AM (more)