Courtney’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Steve Courtney explores the relationship between two of Twain’s preacher friends
Tag: Joseph Twichell
Courtney kicks off the 2023 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series
Lecture takes place on May 10 (7:00PM) at Quarry Farm
The Handsomest Man That Ever Was: Twain’s Joseph Twichell
Steve Courtney contributes to CMTS’ ever growing collection of Twain Studies resource pages with an overview of Rev. Joseph Twichell
Hartford Announces Trouble Begins Lecture
Former Quarry Farm Fellow, Dwayne Eutsey, gives a lecture for the Mark Twain House and Museum on September 1
The Trouble Begins in Hartford: The Twain-Twichell Letters
Virtual event takes place today (12/9) at 5:30pm.
Relive Twain’s Summer of 1884 with the Final Lecture of the “Trouble Begins” 2018 Season
The fall portion of the 2018-2019 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, concludes Wednesday, November 7 when presenter John Bird takes the audience through Twain’s summer of 1884 at Quarry Farm. The final fall lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Barn at Quarry Farm. The lecture is free and open to the public. Bird, emeritus professor of English at Winthrop University, will […]
Dwayne Eutsey’s Talk Focuses on Joseph Twichell’s Sermons at Elmira’s Park Church
The 2018 Mark Twain Lecture Series, hosted by the Chemung County Historical Society and the Center for Mark Twain Studies, concludes on Thursday, August 23 at the Chemung Valley Museum (415 East Water St., Elmira). The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. “Never Be in a Hurry to Believe”: How Joe Twichell’s Visits to Elmira and Cornell May Have Saved Huck Finn’s Soul” Dwayne […]
A Tragic Spring For Joe Twichell
Saturday, April 21, marked the 108th anniversary of Mark Twain’s passing. For Twain, whose final decade was wracked by overwhelming bereavement, the promise of death’s release was something welcome. By the end of his life, Twain’s sentiments toward life and death were akin to Satan’s musings in Letters From the Earth (1909): Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by […]
Never In A Hurry To Believe: The Theology of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
On this day 132 years ago the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the first “banning” of Adventures of Huckleberry, by the Concord Public Library. Controversy has followed the novel ever since, with the most recent ruckus occurring just a few months ago in a Virginia school district. Recent attempts to suppress the book are prompted by its racially offensive language instead of snobby objections to “rough, ignorant dialect.” Both cases, however, seem fixated on the novel’s […]
Happy Anniversary, Sam & Livy!
Drawing by Elmira College student, Samantha Berger