Donna Abercrombie of Munster invited me to attend a Sept. 9 luncheon in the gathering space at Southside Christian Church in Munster with the lure of her “special guest speaker being Mark Twain.”

Abercrombie, known to many for her more than two-decade career as a first-grade teacher at Kenwood Elementary School in Hammond, realized, of course, when booking this literature luminary that this couldn’t be the real man raised in Hannibal, Missouri, who penned such literary works as “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn.”

Abercrombie’s guest speaker was only a close facsimile of bushy-eyebrowed Twain, who died at age 74 in 1910. Featured tribute artist and lecturer Terry Lynch portrayed Twain in his 50-minute presentation titled” Between Two Comets: The Life of Mark Twain.”

“Twain was born Nov.

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