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HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) - Huckleberry Finn is finally getting his due.
Huck and Tom Sawyer were fictional characters based on boys Samuel Clemens knew growing up in Hannibal, Mo. Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain, immortalized the boys in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Now the building known as the Huck Finn House is open to the public, according to the Hannibal Courier-Post newspaper.
Huck was based on Tom Blankenship, the son of a drunkard who lived in a ramshackle house near the Mississippi River. The Huck Finn House is located immediately behind the home where Clemens grew up, and sits on the site where the Blankenship family lived. The original house was demolished in 1911, said David Mobley, president of the Mark Twain Home Foundation.
The family that owned the land donated it to the foundation, and the family of a former Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum official paid for the reconstruction, according to the Hannibal Courier-Post paper.
The reconstruction of the exterior "was based upon photographs taken from that period," Mobley said.
For more information, http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/.
© The Canadian Press 2007
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