Great to hear that Sacramento is honoring this new stamp!  After all, it was the Union that sent him t the Sandwich Islands. 
 
Here in Hartford we are having some hoo-ha Saturday too, with the governor unveiling a blow-up of the stamp at 11, and a special cancellation of a first-day cover at "Mark Twain House Station." But the main event, of course, is in Hannibal, so the paddleboat's in the right river!

Steve Courtney
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Terryville, CT 06786
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:47:38 -0700
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> Subject: New Twain Stamp released in Sacramento
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> The few Sacramento Twainiacs are in for a big deal when the US Postal =20=
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> Services unveils a new Mark Twain stamp with his likeness, a river =20
> (although probably not the Sacramento) and a paddle boat This Sunday, =20=
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> June 25 in Old Sacramento. There's not a lot of Twain-related =20
> activities or historical sites here even though he traveled through =20
> town a few times to catch the river boat to San Francisco, calling it =20=
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> variously, "The city of saloons" and "Land of eternal summer," (it =20
> was 102=B0 yesterday). He also gave his Sandwich Islands talk at the =20
> Orleans Hotel which has recently been restored. So we'll have a drink =20=
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> in the heat in his honor. See the stamp and full story here:
> http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/52377/=20
> Old_Sac_Launch_Site_for_New_Postage_Stamp_Honoring_Mark_Twain
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> Jerry Vorpahl