Living Literature: My Stay at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Quarry Farm Fellow Fred Gardaphe writes about his lifelong relationship with literature and his recent residency at Quarry Farm
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The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War and Trade with Laleh Khalili
On the past, present, & future of the Suez Canal.
CFP: South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2021 Convention in Atlanta, Georgia (November 4-6, 2021)
CFP deadline is June 18, 2021
CMTS Announces the 2021 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series
All lectures are online and free to the public
Hal Holbrook Remembered
Register for for these free two events. First event is on Tuesday, April 6.
The Apocryphal Twain: “America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.” (Plus Things Mark Twain Really Said About California!)
Is Mark Twain really responsible for this aphorism about curiously unhinged Californians?
A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain’s Emo Playlist
Mark Twain’s complicated relationship with music reveals much about his writing process, personality, politics, and family relationships.
The 4th Annual Quarry Farm Fireplace Contest
Attention all elementary teachers!!
The Trouble Begins in Hartford: Genus Americanus, Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity
This virtual lecture is free and takes place Monday, March 22, 5:30-6:30pm
Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters to Emily Hale
In 2020, Princeton unsealed an archive left behind by a fairly anonymous teacher and dramatist with a very famous friend…