Thursday, January 2, 2025

Kentucky by Heart: Mark Twain had real connections to Kentucky, with mother born in Adair County


A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — was born with a head start in life. That’s because Twain’s mother, Jane Lampton, was a native of Adair County, in the southern part of Kentucky. And as a young adult, Twain, too, likely spent an appreciable amount of time in the Bluegrass state.

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