Hal Holbrook: An Appreciation, An Obituary, A Remembrance, A Friendship

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study

Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on February 9th, 2021 The Internet, once touted as the information superhighway, is positively littered with spurious quotes attributed to Mark Twain. To a lesser extent, the same is true for a writer who knew and admired Mark...

The Legacy of Lawrence I. Berkove Courtesy of Mark Twain Journal

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study

Originally posted by: Joe Csicsila on May 21, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: We were saddened to learn this past weekend of the passing of Lawrence I. Berkove, a former Quarry Farm Fellow, Trouble Begins lecturer, and frequent guest of Elmira College and Friend of CMTS. With...

Editor’s Re:Marks Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020 When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...

And that has made all the difference Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold on September 7th, 2021 Mark Twain identified as a poet, a bad poet. “When the great poet laureate, Lord Tennyson, died,” Twain wrote, “I found that his position was open and I tried to get it…but I did not get...

When Will WE Listen? Mark Twain Through the Lenses of Generation Z

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on March 7th, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick,...