John T. Lewis & Mark Twain: A Friendship
“This wearer aggrandizes the watch, not the watch the wearer”
Tag: John T. Lewis
The John T. Lewis Story: A Repeat Epistolary Performance
Two scholars from the Mark Twain Project analyze Twain’s storytelling technique by comparing two letters recounting the same famous incident at Quarry Farm.
At Home with Susan Crane
Quarry Farm Fellow and historic mason Courtney DeRusha talks about Susan Crane and exploring Quarry Farm
Dispatches from Quarry Farm: A Tree Named Lewis
Quarry Farm’s only year-round resident, Caretaker Steve Webb, provides us with occasional, not altogether reliable, updates from the premises. To paraphrase the friendly ghost with whom he shares his home, Mr. Webb’s dispatches include eminently plausible fictions, mildly exaggerated truths, and an exhaustless mine of stupendous lies. The rain froze in a thin black sheet beneath two inches of rapidly-accumulated snow, but that didn’t shake this hearty Northeasterner. I exited […]
Fall Issue of Mark Twain Journal Honors Kevin Mac Donnell
The Fall 2016 issue of the Mark Twain Journal honors scholar, collector, and longtime Friend of the Center, Kevin Mac Donnell. Mac Donnell has spent the past thirty years building the largest private collection of Twain-related books, manuscripts, and artifacts. Mac Donnell’s personal archive provides the foundation for dozens of his own publications, including Mark Twain & Youth, co-edited with R. Kent Rasmussen, a collection of essays which provides the theme for the […]