SALEM, Mo. — The body was found inside an unlocked ... about a two-hour drive southwest of St. Louis near the Mark Twain National Forest, a gateway to some of the state’s great spring-fed ...

Nestled alongside Truman Lake and the Osage River, Warsaw offers incredibly affordable living for seniors. This small town provides some of the lowest housing costs in Missouri. You can find nice ...

As Missouri’s third-largest city, Springfield offers big-city amenities with small-town prices. This makes it perfect for retirees living on a monthly budget of $1,200 or less. Housing costs in ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. – In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to step into the world of the beloved American storyteller.

This period includes the footloose, incident-packed childhood in slave-owning Hannibal, Mo ... “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award ...

Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born in 1835 in Florida, Mo., before moving, at the age of 4, to nearby Hannibal—his beloved “white town drowsing” on the banks of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Chernow’s “Mark ... Twain was also someone who avoided lending his voice to condemning the practice of lynching. That silence, Chernow writes, was a major missed opportunity to help foster a ...

He was born in Missouri ... as I was writing this book that Mark Twain condensed in one life, in one person, both the best and the worst of our national character. And I feel - also felt, Michel ...

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity ...

This week journalist Ron Chernow is publishing his eighth book, a rollicking and comprehensive portrait of Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, the humorist and orator who turned a ...