Twainadventures: Life and Learning at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Mika Turim-Nygren discusses her Twain adventures in Elmira and at Quarry Farm
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Winners of the Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest
Congratulations to all the winners!
Mark Twain in Elmira: A Short Film
Created for Summer Orientation at Elmira College, a concise introduction to Mark Twain’s historical connections with the Elmira community.
The Mark Twain Circle Announces A Graduate Student Workshop
Deadline for applications for this unprecedented opportunity is Friday, January 7, 2022
CFP: Elmira 2022 – The Ninth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies
It’s the big one! CFP deadline is Friday, January 7, 2022
Merav Schocken’s Park Church Lecture Now Available
Schocken explores Twain’s struggle between faith and doubt in relation to the Holy Land
The Apocryphal Twain: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”
The search for the origin of this popular aphorism run through Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Bear” Bryant, and the B&O railroad!?!
Park Church Lecture Explores Mark Twain’s Self-Deception During His Holy Land Trip
Lecture is Wednesday, July 14 7:00pm at the Park Church
Mark Twain Circle Announces 2022 MLA Presentations
The Mark Twain Circle of America has announced its lectures at the 2022 MLA conference, scheduled for January 6-9, in Washington, D.C. “Mark Twain: Emerging and Diverging Approaches” Joseph Darda, “A Connecticut Yankee on King Arthur’s Diamond: Mark Twain, Baseball, and the Making of a White Reunion” Avery Blankenship, “Twain in Circulation: The Reprinting of Mark Twain in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers” Hsuan Hsu, “Twain’s Olfactory Gags” About the Mark Twain Circle of America […]
Mika Turim-Nygren’s Park Church Lecture is now available
Turim-Nygren posits that Twain gives Huck a “truly American” literary language that overcomes racial divisions