by admin | May 3, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 30, 2016 The above image, courtesy of The Mark Twain Project at UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, comes from an engraved greeting card Twain circulated in January, 1876. William Dean Howells, upon receiving one, described...
by admin | May 3, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 23, 2017 WNPR (Hartford) ran a segment this week about Mark Twain’s “Letter From Santa Claus” featuring an interview with The Mark Twain House‘s Director of Education, James Golden. You can listen to it below: You can...
by admin | May 3, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 21, 2016 On December 18, 1868, Mark Twain resumed his “American Vandals” lecture tour after the briefest respite. He had traveled overnight and throughout the day to arrive in Elmira following a performance in Scranton....
by admin | May 3, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 20, 2021 The above short film debuts as part of Summer Orientation at Elmira College. It was designed to introduce incoming students and their parents to the historical connections between Mark Twain, his extended family, and...
by admin | May 3, 2025 | Twainiac Quarantine Diary
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on April 13, 2020 Mark Twain’s parable of social distancing is called “Was It Heaven? Or Hell?” (1902). At the center of the tale are a pair of amateur nurses pressed into service by tragic circumstances. Hannah and Hester Gray must...