Preservation: Remember the Alamo (Replica)
By: Mark Boardman 11/03/2009
Setting a High Mark
Twain, that is. The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, is looking to build a $10-million endowment by the end of 2010—the 100th anniversary of the writer’s death.
Dr. Cindy Lovell, executive director of the home, says the endowment “will carry the museum through good times and bad times when we’re all dead and gone.”
The drive is well on its way to reaching an interim goal of $3 million by December 31, with many contributions donated via Facebook.
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum includes eight buildings, six of which are on the National Register.
573-221-9010 • MarkTwainMuseum.org
Comments (3)
My wife and I visited Alamo Village on Thanksgiving day 2006 and enjoyed a very memorable day. There were only a handful of visitors that day and we were invited to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Shahan family and all of the employees who were also treated by the Shahans as family. We were welcomed with warmth and felt very much at home and had a great meal at no charge. We spent the entire day touring the facility and thoroughly enjoyed it and are very sad that it is no longer open to the public. I sincerely hope that a way to resume operation is found, as we have been looking forward to a return visit ever since our first. It's a great and unique place.
Happy Shahan was a personal friend of mine. I 'starred' in a video there in 1991.
I had to climb a tall ladder to the top of the "Alamo" and raise the Texas flag at the beginning of the film. It's a great place to film commercials and movies. It saddens me to know the public can't visit it anymore.
Jim Gough Liberty Hill, Texas
Had a buddy(Doug Bridwell) who played guitar, sang and did the shoot outs there in the 70's with Johnny Rodriquez...He told some funny stories of his time there, Happy SHahan, Tom T. Hall and others.Too bad this legacy will die out with the old timers....
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