“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time,” Mark Twain famously quipped.

“If there are no cigars in Heaven, I shall not go” is another. He was never at a loss for funny things to say about his habit.

One of Missouri’s favorite sons, Twain was famous for his appetite for cigars and whiskey.

Apparently those appetites are still being fed, a century after he died.

He was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up in Hannibal, but  Twain is buried in Elmira, New York, where visitors are smoking and drinking at his grave. Locals say that’s been going on for years, but now a local museum is documenting it.

Items left at the grave are on display at the Chemung Valley History Museum in Elmire.

Museum Director Bruce Whitmarsh tells the Star Gazeet of Elmira the people want to experience the crotchety author.

“People want to go to the gravesite and be a part of experiencing Mark Twain, and as part of that they leave these mementoes — half-smoked cigars, his favorite whiskey,” Whitmarsh said.

The items occupy a small case by the museum entrance. Among them: empty bottles of Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and Glenora Wine Cellar’s Mark Twain Reisling; Mark Twain cigars in a box; matches; a shotglass; postcards; coins and pebbles; a dried bouquet; a program for a theater group’s production of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” and, inexplicable to museum staff, two tubes of lipstick.

“It talks to some of the fun connections to someone who has been gone 100 years, but (whose message) still talks to us today,” Whitmarsh said.