From The Study (Index)

Below you will find an index of original scholarly materials created exclusively for MarkTwainStudies.org.

Quarry Farm, James B. Pond Photograph Series, 104.Photo of group on the porch at Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York. Left to right: Susan Crane, Mrs. James B. Pond, Bim Pond, Susy Clemens. Dog at left: Bruce. Dog in center: Osmon. 1895.

Alphabetical Order by Author

Updated as of Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Alvarado, Diandra, “Livy Clemens & Mark Twain’s Moment of Enlightenment”
Alzaroo, Lubna, “Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine”
The American Vandal Podcast (from this page you can link to homepages for individual episodes, which include bibliographies, guest bios, etc.)
Ball, Nathaniel, “Rev. Thomas K. Beecher Presides Over the Memorial For Susy Clemens”
Bates, Courtney, “Mark Twain Expected Us to Read His Fan Mail”
Beidler, Peter G., “Building A Model of Huck and Jim’s Raft”
Beydoun, Mona & Samantha DeRosia, “2018 Undergraduate Quarry Farm Fellows Interview Filmmakers Aaron & Adam Nee about Their Adaptation of Tom Sawyer“
Bronson-Bartlett, Blake and Terry Catapano, “The John T. Lewis Story: A Repeat Epistolary Performance”
Bianculli, David, “Mark Twain: Television Star”
Bossart van Otterloo, Bridget, “Plein Air Painting at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Caddell, Jillian Spivey, “A Caring Man’: Remembering John W. Jones & Mark Twain in Elmira”
Caddell, Jillian Spivey, “A Writer’s Table (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Cadle, Nathaniel, “Contemplating Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Caron, James, “Humor Scholar James E. Caron Discusses His New Book On ‘Truthiness'”
Cavitch, Max, “Living the Life (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Chadwick, Jocelyn, “The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part I”
Chadwick, Jocelyn, “The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part II”
Chadwick, Jocelyn, “21st-Century Students Respond to Sensitive Texts”
Chadwick, Jocelyn, “When Will We Listen? Mark Twain Through The Lens of Generation Z”
Chadwick, Jocelyn and Matt Seybold, “‘And that has made all the difference’: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry”
Click, Ben, “Editor’s Re:Marks (Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual)”
Courtney, Steve, “The Beginnings of The Hartford House, Part I”
Courtney, Steve, “The Beginnings of The Harford House, Part II”
Courtney, Steve, “The Handsomest Man That Ever Was: Twain’s Joseph Twichell”
Csicsila, Joseph, “The Legacy of Lawrence I. Berkove”
Dawidziak, Mark, “Hal Holbrook: An Appreciation, An Obituary, A Remembrance, A Friendship”
Dawidziak, Mark, “Mark Dawidziak Celebrates Will Vinton, Oscar-Winning Director, producer, and Revolutionary Animator”
Dawidziak, Mark, “The Impact & Importance of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!“
DeMarco, Laura, “Wild To Move: Mark Twain in Cleveland”
DeRusha, Courtney, “At Home With Susan Crane (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Dierckx, Hiedi, “Elmira Archaeology Students Explore Mystery Structure at Quarry Farm”
Douglass, Frederick, “The Lessons of Emancipation to The New Generation”
Driscoll, Kerry, “Kerry Driscoll Discusses The Inspiration for Her New Book, Based on Research That Began at Elmira College in 1986”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “A Connecticut Yankee in the New Gilded Age”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “A Tragic Spring for Joe Twichell”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “An Amazing Job: Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain & President…Garfield”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “An Unlikely Patron of Civil Rights Jurisprudence”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor, & The Mark Twain Prize”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Dreaming India The Marvelous & Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Happy Halloween!: Twain’s Favorite Ghost Story and Twain Speaks from the Netherworld”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Mark Twain, The Mason: Anticipating The Premiere of Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem“
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Never In A Hurry To Believe: The Theology of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Of Walls & Wangdoodles”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “‘One of the Best Men I Have Ever Known’: Mark Twain’s Friendship with Rev. Thomas K. Beecher”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “‘One of the Best Men I Have Ever Known’: Happy Birthday, Thomas K. Beecher”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Remembering Reverend Conway: Mark Twain’s Second Favorite Clergyman”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “Scrub Angels and Practical Cats at Quarry Farm”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “‘That Friendless Child’s Noise Would Make You Glad’: Unremembered Slaves on Frederick Douglass Day”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “The Alternative Facts of 1863: Mark Twain’s ‘A Bloody Massacre Near Carson'”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “The ‘Earthiness’ of Mark Twain in Western Film & TV”
Eutsey, Dwayne, “The Mugwump Bump: Mark Twain, Independent Politics, & The Election of 1884”
Ezell, Kaine, “The Android & The Icon: Mark Twain’s Appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation“
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, “A Bouquet of Birthday Wishes from Mark Twain Scholars to Hal Holbrook on His 94th Birthday: What ‘Mark Twain Tonight!’ Means to Us”
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, “Hal Holbrook’s Timeless Gift: The Performance of A Lifetime”
Gardaphe, Fred, “Living Literature: My Stay At Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Garvey, Ellen Gruber, “How Mark Twain Supported Women’s Suffrage”
Garvey, Ellen Gruber, “Who Tells The Story?: The Scrapbook of Warner McGuinn, A Civil Rights Activist in Mark Twain’s Shadow”
Gilbert, Christopher, “The U.S. in a Comic Looking Glass: Caricature & National Character”
Harris, Susan K., “Elmira Girl Marries Hannibal Boy (And the Rest Is Literary History)”
Harris, Susan K., “Mark Twain, Suffragette Ally & Overprotective Father”
Harris, Susan K., “Quarry Farm, A Thank You Note (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Hellwig, Harold H., “150 years of Innocents Abroad: The American Vandal in Venice”
Hernandez, Aleksandra, “Reflections on The Uses of Disgust in Twain’s Animal Stories (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Heryford, Ryan, “Harvesting: A Thank You To Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Hood, Clifton, “Quarrying the Twain Research Library (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Howard, Mallory, “Fellowship, Friendship, & Felines…Oh My! (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Howe, Larry, “Black Lives Matter at Quarry Farm”
Howe, Larry, “April in Elmira & Redding (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Jao, Charline, “Joking Aside: Jon Stewart & The Mark Twain Prize”
Johnson-Schmidt, Elise, “CMTS Obtains Historically Relevant Furniture For Quarry Farm Porch”
Jordan, Steve, “A Feeble Salute To Mark Twain” (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Jyothinagaram, Maya and Emilia Murphy, “To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy”
Kassam, Hamada, “Mark Twain in Damascus: A Quest for Immortality”
Kassam, Hamada, “Tom Sawyer Had A Dream and It Shot Him”
Kather, Jan, “Mark Twain & Controversial Art”
Kather, Jan, “‘The Obscenest Picture The World Possesses’: A Twainian Homage to John Berger, George Michael, David Bowie, Prince”
Ketterer, David, “Recalling ‘Epoch-Eclipse & Apocalypse’ & Anticipating August 21 Eclipse”
Ladd, Barbara, “Writing & Discovery at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Lemak, Joe, “C19 Podcast Focuses on John W. Jones, important Elmira historical figure”
Lemak, Joe, “CMTS Launches the Quarry Farm Preservation Campaign – And Needs You!”
Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – January 1871 – Buffalo – Twain Accused of Plagiarism”
Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – February 7, 1871 – Twain’s Trip to Washington, D.C.”
Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – March 3, 1871 – A Long, Hard Winter in Buffalo”
Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain Day By Day: The Day Mark Twain Defended A Serial Killer”
Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy, and The News”
Lieberman, Jennifer L., “The Shocking Truth About Mark Twain’s Fascination with Electricity”
Lovell, Cindy, “Host of Hannibal: A Tribute to Henry Sweets”
Mark Twain Circle of America, “Mark Twain Circle of America Issues Statement of Solidarity With Protesters Against Police Brutality”
McCall, Corey, “Adorno’s Tom Sawyer”
McLaughlin, Don James, “Germ: A Growing Point. A Bud. (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
McNemee, Deborah Eades, “Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”?
Melton, Jeffrey, “An Ode to The Innocents Abroad“
Melton, Jeffrey, “Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece In The Innocents Abroad“
Michelson, Bruce, “The Mad Monk & Not-So-Distant Mirror of Mark Twain (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Millard, Frances, “Quarry Farm Carpet Leaves for Thirty Years, Goes to Turkey, and Comes Back Home”
Morris, Linda A., “The Quietest Place (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Muller, John, “A Tale of Today: Mark Twain on Impeachment”
Nance, Sarah, “On Top of the Hill: Losing and Living at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Neider, Charles, “Mark Twain & The Russians: An Exchange of Views”
Obenzinger, Hilton, “Getting Innocent”
Pascal, John, “Twain for Teachers: 88 Days In the Mother Lode Documentary”
Pascal John, “Twain for Teachers: Mark Your Own Patent Medicine”
Pasqualina, Stephen, “Mark Twain’s Modernism”
Pasqualina, Stephen, “Visions of History at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Pfeffer, Miki, “Grace King: The Clemens Family’s Friend From New Orleans”
Pfeffer, Miki, “Through A Southern Woman Writer’s Eyes: Seeing the Man in A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns“
Rankin, Alan, “Finding the Lost Diaries of Mark Twain’s Granddaughter, Nina Gabrilowitsch”
Rankin, Alan, “Six Degrees of Samuel Clemens (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, “From Innocent to India: Mark Twain’s Evolving Sympathies”
Reigstad, Thomas, “Mark Twain’s Father-in-Law’s Monopoly: A Breif History of the J.Langdon Coal Company”
Reigstad, Thomas, “New Documentary Focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo”
Rice, Laura, “No Place Like Home (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Roark, Jarrod, “Gallows Without Humor: How I Mined Mark Twain’s Western Violence”
Schmidt, Barbara, “Mark Twain, Mad Magazine, & Old Crow Whiskey”
Schocken, Merav, “On Material Sanctity (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Seybold, Matt, “150 Years Ago Mark Twain Celebrated New Year’s Eve By Debating How Drunk He Had Been During The Preceding Year & Listening to Charles Dickens Read David Copperfield With His Future Wife”
Seybold, Matt, “150 Years of Mark Twain in Elmira: Dickens Holidays, The Gospel of Revolt & The Quarry Farm Style”
Seybold, Matt, “150 Years of The Revised Catechism”
Seybold, Matt, “A Loving & Clairvoyant Parasite: George Steiner in ‘The Archives of Eden'”
Seybold, Matt, “A Mark Twain Studies Primer”
Seybold, Matt, “Ah Shucks, Satan!: Mark Twain’s Style, Quantified”
Seybold, Matt, “Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain”
Seybold, Matt, “The Blue Jays Play Their Home Opener On The Site of Mark Twain’s Buffalo Boarding House”
Seybold, Matt, “Broken Idol: An Encomium for Hal Bush”
Seybold, Matt, “Brutal Things Must Be Said: James Baldwin on Huckleberry Finn“
Seybold, Matt, “Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque”
Seybold, Matt, “‘Buy It, Laugh, & Grow Fat’: The 1869 Reviews of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad“
Seybold, Matt, “Death at Christmastime: Mark Twain & The Music of Merciful Release”
Seybold, Matt, “Drinking with Twain: A Rare Manuscript”
Seybold, Matt, “Even If He Weren’t My Friend: Frederick Douglass & Mark Twain”
Seybold, Matt, “Hanging The Crane in Hartford: Mark Twain’s 39th Birthday”
Seybold, Matt, “In Memory of Noted Twain Scholar, Carl Dolmetsch”
Seybold, Matt, “Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)”
Seybold, Matt, “Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain in Elmira: A Short Film”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain: Lovesick at Christmas”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain: Santa Claus Impersonator”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, & The Nadirs of U.S. Electoral History”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain Wishes ‘A Happy New Year” with 1876 Postcard”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s 43rd Thanksgiving”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s Portfolio: Existential Hedging & The United Fruit Company”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s Portfolio: Hell-Hound Rogers, Anaconda Copper, & The Spider Aristocracy of Finance”
Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s ‘The War Prayer’ Excites 21st-Century Artists & Activists”
Seybold, Matt, “Neoliberal Rationality in The Old Gilded Age: Introductory Address at 2018 Quarry Farm Symposium”
Seybold, Matt, “On April 21st, Easter Sunday…”
Seybold, Matt, “‘Put the Reader through Hell’: In Memory of Toni Morrison, Twain Scholar”
Seybold, Matt, “Sam & Livy Clemens: Married & Buried in Elmira”
Seybold, Matt, “Silent Work in Elmira: Letters from the Wilbur H. Siebert Underground Railroad Collection”
Seybold, Matt, “#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It“
Seybold, Matt, “Teachers Convene at Quarry Farm and Elmira College to Discuss Mark Twain and Generation Z”
Seybold, Matt, “Thanksgiving at Quarry Farm, 1897”
Seybold, Matt, “Thanksgiving Steeple-Jumping: The Sesquicentennial of Mark Twain’s ‘Conditional’ Engagement”
Seybold, Matt, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Not Just for English Majors”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘America is Built on a Tilt And Everything Loose Slides to California’ (Plus Things Mark Twain Really Said About California!)”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Golf Is A Good Walk Spoiled'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘I Have Never Let Schooling Interfere With My Education'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘If Voting Made Any Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘If You Don’t Read The Newspaper, You’re Uninformed. If You Do, You’re Misinformed”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘It Is Easier To Con A Man Than To Convince Him He Has Been Conned'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘It’s Not The Size of the Dog In The Fight, But The Size of The Fight In The Dog”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Kindness Is Language The Deaf Can Hear”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Politicians Are Like Diapers'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: Ron Chernow’s Encomium to the American Press at the White House Correspondents Dinner Ends on a False Note”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘The Things You Didn’t Do”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘The Two Most Important Days of Your Life…'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Things We Know That Just Ain’t So.”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: Tom Wolfe Memorial Edition”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘When The Rich Rob The Poor, It’s Called Business”
Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Benediction of A Kiss This Christmas Morning”
Seybold, Matt, “The Best Defense Is A Good Offense: False Virtue, Fake News, & Mark Twain’s Birthday Roast of Ben Franklin”
Seybold, Matt, “The Calculated Incivility of Anson Burlingame, The Only Congressman Mark Twain Could Tolerate”
Seybold, Matt, “The Fickle Affections of The Elmira Advertiser for Frederick Douglass”
Seybold, Matt, “‘The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira’: An Episode of the C19: America In the Nineteenth Century Podcast, Featuring Hal Holbrook”
Seybold, Matt, “‘The Greatest Showman’ vs. ‘The World’s Greatest Laughmaker'”
Seybold, Matt, “The Nastiest Things Mark Twain Said About Teddy Roosevelt”
Seybold, Matt, “The Park Church Culture Into Which Mark Twain Married: An Introduction to ‘Mark Twain’s Music Box'”
Seybold, Matt, “‘The Texan Steer’: A Rediscovered Sketch by Mark Twain?”
Seybold, Matt, “The Twain Doctrine”
Seybold, Matt, “The Twain Doctrine: Citizen Holbrook & The Geopolitics of Colloquial Humor”
Seybold, Matt, “‘The White House Funeral’ by Mark Twain”
Seybold, Matt, “Twain for Teachers: Huckleberry Finn in the Era of Resurgent Bigotry”
Seybold, Matt, “What Was Mark Twain Doing The Last Time The Cubs Won The World Series?”
Seybold, Matt, “You Could Get Bookings: A Review of Holbrook/Twain“
Shannon, Edward, “Away from the Feuds at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Sharlow, Gretchen, “‘Adieu, Dear Friend’: A Tribute to Victor Doyno, The First Quarry Farm Fellow”
Silver, Ariel, “Searching For Even In Twain’s Garden of Eden (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Stanleigh, Andy, “The Untold Story of the Making of the Fantastical, Historically Inaccurate, Adventurous, and Mysterious Mark Twain’s Niagara, Book 1 Graphic Novel”
Sugimura, Atsushi, “‘I Killed Thirty-Eight Persons’: Sam Clemens & The Sioux Wars, 1862-1876”
Thompson, Todd N., “Writing, Roosting, Roistering: Two Weeks at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Trombley, Laura Skandera, “A Disturbing Passion?: Mark Twain & The Angelfish”
Trombley, Laura Skandera, “‘Mark Twain & Libation’: A Talk by The 2017 Louis J. Budd Award Winner”
Trombley, Laura Skandera, “Quarry Farm Redux (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Turim-Nygren, Mika, “Twainadventures: Life & Learning at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
Various Scholars, “Twain Scholars Pay Tribute to Hal Holbrook & Mark Twain Tonight!“
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: A House of Fiction”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: A Tree Named Lewis”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Autumn Arrives”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Distance Lends Enchantment to The View”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Huck! Speak Up. We Need You.”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: I’m Lookin Out The Window Again”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: It’s Definitely The Cat”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Sympathetic Funk”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Allium”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Cat, Plays Bass.”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The First Snow”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Last Cigar of the Next Caretaker”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The New Guy”
Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Quadrennial”
Williams, Nathaniel, “Gears & God: What Powered Twain’s Speculative Fiction?”
VanDette, Emily, “Celebrity Authors for A Cause: The Anti-Vivisection Connection between Mark Twain & Elizabeth Stuart Phelps”
Young, Melissa Scholes, “The Crane House Speaks (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)