by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 12, 2018 About halfway through my recent two-week fellowship at Quarry Farm I felt a new affinity with something Mark Twain wrote while perched there “on top of the hill near heaven.” “I have the feeling of being a sort...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 28, 2017 While Mark Twain’s close bond with Congregationalist minister Joseph Twichell is well known among Twainians, the friendship he shared with another man of the cloth, the Rev. Moncure Conway, often receives little...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on January 25, 2019 “You can call it a barrier, you can call it a wall, you can call it a wangdoodle for all I care.” – Sen. John Kennedy (Louisiana) The above quote from the ongoing (some might say “never-ending”) discussion over...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by:Dwayne Eutsey on March 17, 2017 On this day 132 years ago the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the first “banning” of Adventures of Huckleberry, by the Concord Public Library. Controversy has followed the novel ever since, with the most recent...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on October 16, 2017 A new documentary, Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland, airs tonight on PBS. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the award-winning film features insights from Twain scholars around the world. According to the...