Every year the Center for Mark Twain Studies hosts the "Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest." The contest is based on decorative tiles situated in the Quarry Farm Parlor fireplace. Originally owned by Susan and Theodore Crane, Mark Twain's in-laws, the tiles are...
Originally posted by: Thomas Reigstad on November 26, 2018For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through...
Originally posted by: John Pascal on July 13, 2017 Editor’s Note: This is the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series focused on adapting Twain to the classroom. If you have an assignment, activity, lesson plan, syllabus design, or pedagogical narrative which...
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: Deborah Eades McNemee on July 28, 2020EDITOR’S NOTE: This post originally appeared atKeepingClassics.comand is excerpted with permission from the author. The Center for Mark Twain Studies has embedding some supplementary materials which may...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on July 26, 2022To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy (2022)The Culver Academies in northern Indiana have a proud tradition of producing Twainiacs. Hal...
Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold on September 7th, 2021Mark Twain identified as a poet, a bad poet. “When the great poet laureate, Lord Tennyson, died,” Twain wrote, “I found that his position was open and I tried to get it…but I did not get it…It...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on March 7th, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick,...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & John Grassieon on March 14th, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week, Jocelyn Chadwick responded to the recent removal of “sensitive texts,” including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the curriculum in Duluth Public Schools by asking...