A rusted barge docked on the Mississippi River in Hannibal, a city in northeast Missouri so famous as the boyhood home of the legendary writer and wit Mark Twain — later called "the Father of American Literature" by fellow author William Faulkner — where images, signs, and stories of Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, can be found on what seems like every block in town. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.