Sunday, May 4, 2025

Mark Twain Memorial Concert -- May 4, 2025

Washington Times, 08-May-1925

In May, 1915, Washington DC hosted a Mark Twain Memorial Concert to help raise funds for a Mark Twain Memorial Park in Florida, Missouri, Twain's birthplace. His daughter Clara sang and was well received, Irvin S Cobb was a popular humorist and Colonel George Harvey, the host, was a friend of Twain.

Washington Times, 10-May-1925

Washington Evening Star, 11-May-1925


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