Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Continues Oct. 20
Richard Coronado will talk about the humor of Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut
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Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Begins October 6
Lecture will be made available on line at MarkTwainStudies.org
CMTS Announces the 2019 “Park Church Summer Lectures” Series Line-Up
All CMTS lectures are open to the public at no cost.
Upcoming Lecture on Twain and the “Trade Language” of the Law
“Trouble Begin lecture on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 pm in Cowles Hall at Elmira College. The lecture is open to the public at no cost.
Twain Scholar Ben Click Concludes the Spring 2018 Trouble Begins Series
The spring portion of the 2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, May 30 in Cowles Hall, Elmira College. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The fourth and final lecture, “My Penchant for Silence: Mark Twain’s Rhetorical Art of the Unspoken” will be given by Ben Click, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. There is […]
19th Century Decorative Arts Scholar Discusses the Jervis Langdon Mansion at Upcoming Trouble Begins Lecture
On Wednesday, May 9 in The Barn at Quarry Farm at 7:00 p.m, Walter G. Ritchie, Jr. will present a lecture entitled, “High Style in Mid-Nineteenth Century Elmira: The Architecture & Interiors of the Jervis Langdon Mansion” By the 1860s, Jervis Langdon, Mark Twain’s father-in-law, was ready to create a home that announced his status as one of Elmira’s most successful and influential businessmen. After purchasing a house built in […]
“Trouble Begins” Fall 2017 Lecture Line-Up
The fall portion of the 2017-2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies features four lectures, with the first event set for Wednesday, October 4 in Cowles Hall at Elmira College. All four lectures begin at 7:00 p.m., and are free and open to the public. In 1985, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies inaugurated The Trouble Begins lecture series. The title comes from a handbill advertising Mark Twain’s October 2, […]