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Mark Twain and Peggy Mosley
Mark Twain visited us the other night! Or… Samuel Clemens, or Pat Kaunert… he has a lot of names! He told a lot of really interesting stories, and my mom Peggy dressed up in her best gown for the occasion, a really actually old one from about 1900 that belonged to Mrs. Armour, of the famous meatpacking company.
Mr. Twain told stories about things he’d seen and places he’d been, some of which were actually true! The dinner was full of recipes from the time that he was here before, the 1800s, and there was trout and apple crisps and beet salad and other delicious things. He told stories while people had dinner, and everybody loved it so much he came back and told even more! He said he had a really fun time and will be back again some day, and that maybe he would bring his friend Bret Harte along too for more different stories.
Did you know that right across the street is a marker for the Mark Twain/Bret Harte trail? They visited up here over a hundred years ago, when the hotel was only about 20 years old! The whole town of Groveland is a California Historic Landmark, and it’s a great place to live.
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