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(573) 629-3300 hannibalregionalmedicalgroup.org | 573-629-3300 6500 Hospital Drive, Hannibal, MO 63401 3 TREASURE TROVE An essay in photographs and ephemera from the Hannibal History Museum Archives Inside 19 FIESTA DEL SOL Celebrate the sunny season with a day of craft beer, food, live music and more this issue 34 BIG BAM TO HIT HANNIBAL Annual Bike Across Missouri has its final festivities in America’s Hometown june 2016 2 Letter to our readers 27 inspired iMpersonator 39 LoCaL events A life of telling Twain’s stories; Jim Waddell brings Events from Hannibal and a bit beyond the area 13 an option for infants Clemens to the Twain Boyhood Home and a bit beyond Hannibal Regional opens breast-milk repository 28 Cruise witH toM & BeCkY 39 LONE WOLf BIKE sHOW 14 HONORS FOR HANNIBaL REGIONAL HOSPITAL Float the Hannibal Riverfront and help to support Hospital system receives high praise from its goodwill ambassador program 41 REGIONAL EVENTS patients 30 Cruise Between tHe saints 43 GETTING READY FOR SUMMER 17 ‘You Caught Me danCinG’ Upper Mississippi by boat, from St. Paul to St. Louis Megan Duncan on the basics of happiness Interview with Erin Kelley, star of one-woman show coming to Bluff City Theater 36 parks and reC events 56 Gone fisHin’ Hick Finn talks of catfish, carp and the catch. 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I started in this business as a photographer, Alyse Thompson Lisa Marks so I have a great appreciation for the power of Ken Marks Robyn Doyle Joe Anderson Jason Gregory images. Bella Erakko Melissa Cummins That power is on full display in this issue of Hannibal Maga- Kathryn McDaniel Hick Finn Tzine. Writers Ken and Lisa Marks have put on display some of Meagan Duncan the rich history of America’s Hometown, told in the form of a Copy Editing and Design: photo essay depicting facets of the city’s past that might have Nancy Hadler Ben Levin been lost but for the diligence and outreach of the Hannibal His- Andy Martinez tory Museum and museums like it across the country. Nineteenth-century baseball players, a Prohibition-era Advertising Director: Tom Van Ness speakeasy and a death-defying circus act are just some of the 217-221-3309 images and items that have been collected and that are now housed at the museum. Advertising Sales: Becky Terwelp But this issue doesn’t just look back, of course. We’re also 217-221-3335 bringing you previews of the Bike Across Missouri finale, the Fiesta del Sol, a one- Local Magazine Distribution: woman play at Bluff City Theater, New Learning Opportunities Quality Works, Inc. London Park Days and July’s Hannibal 111 South 10th Cannibal, among others. Hannibal, Missouri The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and 573-221-5991 Museum’s Music Under the Stars program Join Hannibal Magazine on Facebook opens this month, as well. Read Hannibal Magazine online at These are just a few of the many whig.com/hannibalmag wonderful events coming up as summer officially kicks off this month. Submit events and calendar items I’d like to take a moment to thank you all for reading Hanni- to [email protected] by bal Magazine each month and allowing us to bring you news of June 1 to be included in July issue. all that our area has to offer. Over the course of the next few months, we will be bring- ing you some exciting news about ways we’re improving the magazine, and I’d like to invite you to send us your suggestions to [email protected]. Thank you again, and I look forward to seeing you around town. Copyright © 2016 by Hannibal Magazine Published monthly by Quincy Media, Inc. 130 S. 5th St., P.O. Box 909, Quincy IL 62301 Ron Wallace 217-223-5100 [email protected] 2 JUNE 2016 Hannibal Magazine Treasures from the Hannibal History Museum Archives By Ken and Lisa Marks Photos from the Hannibal History Museum ne of the missions of the Hannibal History Museum part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Lawyers from as far away is to collect, preserve, interpret and share artifacts as New York have contacted the Museum — they have found items and information about Hannibal’s history. Since the relating to Hannibal while settling an estate that they are happy to Museum first opened its doors on Main Street five simply mail to the Museum as a donation. years ago, a remarkable number of generous donors Of course, there is limited space for display at the Hannibal His- Ohave contacted the Museum, offering their family histories, precious tory Museum and not everything in the Museum’s collections can documents, photographs and artifacts to be included in the Muse- be put on display. However, those items that are not included in one um’s archives. Some donors simply bring in an item of interest so that of the Museum’s exhibits are still valuable for use in research and the museum might make a digital scan, with the original document may become part of a future exhibit. or photograph staying with the family. Others have loaned precious Most importantly, the Museum’s archive serves as a repository family heirlooms to be displayed for a certain period of time. Many for the all-too-easily forgotten memories of 200 years of Hannibal artifacts have been donated or gifted to the Museum and are now residents. America’s Hometown, America’s Pastime Hannibal has embraced baseball since the mid-1800s; years before building a historic ballpark — Cle- mens Field — that held the oc- casional minor-league team, the town would have its own industrial league. Teams would form around major employers such as Star Shoes and Portland Atlas Cement, competing for titles and a sense of workplace pride. This contribution from a descendent of the Murphy family shows one of their kin pos- ing as part of the Hannibal Union Blues, whose players were mainly day laborers from the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad shops. While the date of the photo is not exact, is estimated to be from 1888-1889; it has been rumored but not fully confirmed that hall-of-famer Jake Beckley played for the Union Blues as a teenager before landing with an independent-league team at Leavenworth, Kan.,in 1886. continues on 4 ➤ Hannibal Magazine JUNE 2016 3 Business during Great Depression A tourist from Minnesota brought this image to the museum in hopes of locating the building where his great-grandfather once worked. Be- cause the back wall appears to be “false” or non-structural, the gentle- man believed this to be a front for a speakeasy from the 1920s. While it is possible that the shop may once have catered to illegal liquor sales, the picture here of the South Side Smoke Shop on 521 S. Main dates to 1934 — the back shelf contains a promotional sign of Cardinal pitchers Dizzy and Paul Dean. By this time, prohibition had been repealed; the sparseness of the interior can be seen as reflective of a small working-class business in the midst of the Great Depression. The building, just a couple of blocks from the Burlington Route repair shops and offices, survived the 1993 flood and was one of the last structures to be demolished in the South Hannibal neighborhood. continues on 6 ➤ 16” 2-TOPPING PIZZA & 2-LITER OF PEPSI Expires 6/30/2016 Pizza $ 95 & Subs 18 Please mention coupon when ordering. Not valid with any other offer. Good at participating Cassano’s only. TWO 12” 1-TOPPING PIZZA & 2-LITER OF PEPSI Pizza Expires 6/30/2016 & Subs $ 95 Please mention coupon when ordering. 23 Not valid with any other offer. Good at participating Cassano’s only. CRISPY CHICKEN SANDWICH Expires 6/30/2016 Pizza $ & Subs 95 Please mention coupon when ordering. 4 Not valid with any other offer. Good at participating Cassano’s only. 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