Tuesday 6 January 2015

Mark Twain plaque stolen from author’s gravesite in New York

Mark Twain plaque stolen from author’s gravesite in New York


The granite monument at Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s gravesite at Woodlawn Cemetery stretches 12 feet into the air. That’s two fathoms — or “mark twain,” if you’re using steamboat terminology. On the monument was a bronze likeness of the author, but the Clemens-as-Twain plaque is now missing, removed from the monument by a thief.

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