St. Petersburg Gazette and Dawson's Landing Herald

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One-shot fanzine by Steven Silver. It was published on April 21, 2020, the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Mark Twain and focused on the author's life, career, and influence and included several pieces by Twain. The title was taken from the two fictional villages in Twain's writing based on his boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri. St. Petersburg was the village's name in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Dawson's Landing was the name of the village in Pudd'nhead Wilson.

The masthead was created by Mo Starkey. Published on-line, it included articles on Twain's life and works by Alma Alexander, Johnny Carruthers, Valerie Fausone, Peter Heck, Gary McGath, Baron DavE Romm, and Steven H Silver. It also reprinted various short works and quotations by Twain.

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