Annis Ford Eastman (Mark Twain Studies Resource Page)
Mary Lemak details the life of the author of Twain’s eulogy and the mother of Crystal and Max Eastman
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Lemak’s Park Church Lecture Now Available
Lemak focuses on the minister who followed Thomas K. Beecher in the Park Church pulpit and wrote Twain’s eulogy
150 Years of Mark Twain in Elmira: Dickens Holidays, The Gospel of Revolt, & The Quarry Farm Style
2018 marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of Mark Twain’s first visit to Elmira, the town where he would meet his wife, spend many of his summers over the remainder of his life, write several of his most acclaimed books, and finally be laid to rest. In the following essay, Dr. Seybold commemorates the occasion by offering his estimation of what Elmira meant to Mark Twain. January 26, 1905 It was the 30th birthday […]