Meet Mark Twain at the National Automobile Museum
McAvoy Layne is The Ghost of Mark Twain in a special one night performance of Mark Twain’s Nevada from the Wild Stallion to the Automobile on June 13, at the National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, in downtown Reno. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the program beginning at 7 p.m.
Layne (whose resemblance to Mark Twain is eerie) begins his saga of Twain’s experience in Samuel Clemens’ boyhood home of Hannibal, MO and skips along “jaunty-jolly” to his piloting days on the Mississippi. The Twain scholar regales his audience with Twains hapless Civil War misadventures, where he admits “I was missing in action before a shot was fired.”
Layne’s portrayal of Mark Twain continues with his Overland journey to Nevada, culminating with his love affair with the “Lake of the Sky,” Lake Tahoe.
Since Twain loved technology, Layne will share some of the humorists’ first impressions of the newest form of transportation available in his day – the automobile.
A constantly lively part of every program is when Layne, as Mark Twain, takes questions from the audience.
Tickets for the one night only performance are $20 for adults and $10 for children and are available at the National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St. in Reno. A portion of the proceeds from this performance benefits the Museum, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. For more information on the National Automobile Museum, visit www.automuseum.org or call 775-333-9300.
