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...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on October 31, 2018 It’s Halloween, the day when, according to legend, the veil between this world and the spirit realm is at its most delicate. A fitting time to remember Mark Twain’s love for a good ghost story. “Witches” from...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on April 20, 2017 Mark Twain’s world lecture tour in the mid-1890s, which he recounts in Following the Equator, was generally unpleasant for him. Not only did the humiliating stigma of bankruptcy that prompted the voyage haunt him,...