Originally posted by: Alan Rankin on October 7, 2019EDITOR’S NOTE: At the Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri in July 2019, Alan Rankin gave a talk entitled “Nina: The Lost Diary of Nina Gabrilowitsch.” What follows is a modified and expanded version of that...
Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on November 19, 2019Editor’s Note: Miki Pfeffer, recent Quarry Farm Fellow, gave a lecture for CMTS on Grace King and Mark Twain as part of the Fall 2018 “Trouble Begins” Lecture Series. Her talk, “Getting to Know Mark Twain through...
Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on July 19, 2022 Editor’s Note: One of the Center for Mark Twain Studies most important strategic goals is service to the general public. One way that CMTS fulfills this endeavor is the creation of Mark Twain related resource pages...
Originally posted by: Stephen Pasqualina on October 10, 2019In a less-than-famous book titled Green Hills of Africa (1935), Ernest Hemingway famously declared that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Though he...
Originally posted by: John Pascal on September 24th, 2018It is safe to say that most secondary school students know Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from their novels. But they do know less of the enormous variety in Mark Twain’s literary output and the extraordinary...
Originally posted by: John Muller on January 16, 2020With articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump passed by the United States House of Representatives in December 2019, political gridlock has prompted Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to deliberate how...
Originally posted by: Frances Millard on June 28, 2018Here is the story of a 15′ x 11’6” Mahal Carpet once belonging to the Langdon family, how it came to me, and how it was restored through the generosity of Charlotte and Leo Landhuis.In 1988, I was cleaning and...
Originally posted by: Corey McCall on April 4, 2017Since the brutally divisive 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (was it really just four months ago?), the analogy between our present historical moment and Germany in the 1920s has become commonplace. Shortly after the...
Originally posted by: Mark Twain Circle of America on June 9, 2020 “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” – Mark Twain, Following the EquatorThe Mark Twain Circle affirms the courageous citizens who are risking their health and...
Originally posted by: Cindy Lovell on July 23, 2019[Editor’s Note: Henry Sweets, longtime director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, announced earlier this month that he would be stepping down at the end of 2019.] Any semi-serious enthusiast of...