SAVE THE DATE: Elmira 2022
This is the largest gathering devoted to all things Twain. Hope to see you in 2022!
Category: CMTS Events
Welcome to the 2020 CMTS Summer Teachers Institute!
Meet the coordinators of our entirely virtual 2020 Summer Teachers Institute.
Perfect Pairings of Music & Literature: A Holiday Collaboration with The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes
Learn about how the Clemens family celebrated Christmas and enjoy a holiday-themed musical program at the historic Clemens Center.
Recap of the Quarry Farm Symposium “Mark Twain and Nature”
The Symposium took place on Friday, October 4 to Sunday, October 6, 2019
2020 Quarry Farm Fellowship Deadline Fast Approaching
Deadline is November 30, 2019.
The Untold Story of the Making of The Fantastical, Historically Inaccurate, Adventurous, and Mysterious “Mark Twain’s Niagara, Book 1” Graphic Novel
A lecture and book signing event will take place this Friday, September 20 at the Elmira College Library
Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium “Mark Twain and Nature” Program Now Available
The Center for Mark Twain Studies is proud to present the program for the Sixth Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium “Mark Twain and Nature.” The natural world figures prominently in the writings of Mark Twain, whether as the main object of description and commentary as in Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It or as an inextricable element of fictional narratives such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and more. […]
Chemung County Historical Society Presents the 2019 Mark Twain Speaker Series
The lecture series takes place on Thursdays at 7pm in September at the Chemung Valley History Museum
The 3rd Quadrennial Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri
Synopsis of 2019 Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri.
Teachers Convene At Quarry Farm and Elmira College to Discuss Mark Twain and Generation Z
A group of forty-six K-12 teachers, librarians, and other educators gathered in Elmira this week for the 2019 Summer Teachers Institute to discuss the challenges and opportunities created by using Mark Twain’s life and work with students from “Generation Z.” The Institute was led by Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, recent President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and author […]