Manassas Lifelong Learning Institute: Steamboating on Old Man River: Mark Twain's Mississippi River
This free presentation will cover the events after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the greatest real estate deal in history. The United States gained control of one of nature’s most beautiful and economically bountiful features, the Mississippi River. Soon steamboats by the hundreds were transporting goods and people up and down that 2,000-mile waterway. Later a boy from Hannibal, Missouri, named Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, instilled a love of “Old Man River” into America’s literature and history. The talk will cover that history as well as how the course of the river and modern boats/transports continue to make the “Father of Waters” a key element of American life today.
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