[KOH] The “Ghost of Mark Twain” is getting ready to set down his bourbon and cigar for good.

Local writer, educator, historian and Chautaqua performer McAvoy Lane has personified Mark Twain for nearly 35 years, and he’s getting ready to retire. Lane has traveled the world bringing the humor and wisdom of Samuel Clemens to the world, under his pen name of Mark Twain.
Lane told the Tahoe Weekly that it’s “better to retire two years too early than two minutes too late.”

The Forest Service is hosting “A Final Evening with Mark Twain and A Farewell to MacAvoy Layne”, Friday night, July 21, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater at Taylor Creek near South Lake Tahoe. His last public performance will be Sept. 30, fittingly at Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City, Mark Twain’s stomping grounds when he worked on the Territorial Enterprise.