Geographic Error
Please check your Missouri map again (“Follow Frolics of Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain’s Hometown,” July 1). Although the series of New Madrid earthquakes (1811-12) was powerful enough to change the course of the Mississippi River, I seriously doubt that it could have moved Nebraska directly north of Missouri (what happened to Iowa?) and eliminated the western part of Kentucky wedged between Tennessee, southern Illinois and the Mississippi River.
Mark Twain would have chuckled at this nouveau geography.
VIRGINIA TANEJA
La Crescenta
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