by admin | May 7, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 14th, 2017 Malcolm Gladwell began the second season of his Revisionist History podcast with an episode about the public subsidization of expensive private golf clubs. He called the episode “A Good Walk Spoiled,” but wisely...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 2, 2021 There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on January 13, 2017 Annotated editions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been relatively rare, especially considering how frequently the novel is taught in courses at both the secondary and collegiate level. The ever-popular...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 20, 2018 On Thanksgiving Day, 1868, Olivia Langdon “yielded a conditional consent” to Sam Clemens’s third proposal of marriage. They had know each other for less than a year, having been introduced on the occasion of a...
by admin | May 6, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira, Quarry Farm
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on November 19, 2016 Thanksgiving dinner at Quarry Farm in 1897 was planned by Susan Crane and described on elegant cards featuring the family cats. A surviving copy of these menu cards, located in the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira...