Museum Closed: Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy some wise words from Mark Twain until you can come visit us again tomorrow! “You ask me for a sentiment which shall state how much I have to be thankful for this time. For years it has been a rule with me not to expose my gratitude in print on Thanksgiving Day, but I wish to break the rule now and pour out my thankfulness; for there is more of it than I can contain without straining myself. I am thankful — thankful beyond words — that I had only $51,000 on deposit in the Knickerbocker Trust, instead of a million; for if I had had a million in that bucket shop, I should be nineteen times as sorry as I am now. Trusting this paean of joy will satisfy your requirement, I am Yours truly, Mark Twain.” – letter to editor of New York World, 27 October 1907. Reprinted in Word Shadows of the Great by Thomas F. Madigan