The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) at Elmira College will hold its second lecture in the 2026 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series, which takes place on Wednesdays throughout May at the historic Barn at Quarry Farm. Located at 131 Crane Road, the lectures are...
The Center for Mark Twain Studies kicked off the 2026 Trouble Begins Lecture series with a talk by Ann M. Ryan, Professor of American Literature at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She is the past president of the Mark Twain Circle, the former editor of The...
The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) at Elmira College announced the schedule for the 2026 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series, which takes place on Wednesdays throughout May at the historic Barn at Quarry Farm. Located at 131 Crane Road, the lectures are free...
Image created by Angelina Addison '28, CMTS Digital Design Intern All Trouble Begins and Park Church Lectures are open to the general public at no charge. A videorecording of all Trouble Begins and Park Church Lectures will be posted and archived in the Trouble Begins...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concluded its lecture series on October 29, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concludes at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 29 in the Quarry Farm Performance Barn, Located at 131 Crane Road, Elmira, the lectures are free and open to the public and...
In a 2011 PMLA Editor’s Column “Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources” Patricia Yeager asked what might happen if, rather than organizing literary history by segments of chronological time (historical...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued its lecture series on October 16, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued its lecture series on October 15, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 15 in the Quarry Farm Performance Barn, Located at 131 Crane Road, Elmira, the lectures are free and open to the public and...