by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on May 8, 2018 Saturday, April 21, marked the 108th anniversary of Mark Twain’s passing. For Twain, whose final decade was wracked by overwhelming bereavement, the promise of death’s release was something welcome. By the end of his...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 5, 2017 by In a recent New York Times column heralding “The Collapse of American Identity,” Robert Jones notes that British writer G.K. Chesterton once observed that the United States was “a nation with the soul of a...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Kerry Driscoll on July 10th, 2018 The seed of what eventually became Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples, published last month by the University of California Press, was planted—quite by coincidence—long ago in Elmira. The...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Digital Editions
Originally posted by: Frederick Douglass on August 2nd, 2021 This following speech was delivered at “Hoffman’s Grove” (which is now called Grove Park) in Elmira on August 3rd, 1880, as part of a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the adoption of the...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Heidi Dierckx on June 15th, 2017 During Term III, as part of the “Introduction to Archaeology” course, 12 students under my direction excavated the area on Quarry Farm where there are remains of a chimney. The chimney is located about 100 yards...