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B. Clay Shannon
Sun, 30 Jun 2024 06:44:31 -0700
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My fellow Twainiacs,

I just posted something on substack that you may find interesting; it's
here:

https://ramblingnotesofageezer.substack.com/p/calling-oklahoma-educators
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Barbara Schmidt
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:06:11 -0500
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I just ran across this obit for Philip Ashley Fanning, author of MARK TWAIN
AND ORION CLEMENS (2003) who died last month, May 6, 2024 --

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/philip-fanning-obituary?id=55069474

Barb
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Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:17:58 +0000
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It has been pointed out to me that in my reply to Scott Holmes about the
Pearl Street AME Church in Hartford that I mentioned the Mark Twain
Journal but said nothing about my talk posted to Youtube by the Mark
Twain House & Museum. I thought I'd previously posted it, but could not
find that I had. That talk was followed by a panel discussion that
included the current pastor of that church, Rev. Samuel Blanks. Here's
the link:

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Scott Holmes
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:41:26 -0700
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I have been adding the Day By Day indices to Twain’s Geography and have
come across what looks like a problem. The entry for March 10, 1881 has
Sam speaking at the “African Church”. In parenthesis is (A.M.E. Zion
Church, Pearl St., Hfd.). The Wikipedia article for this church states
that it “has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest
African-American congregation,”. This is much later than 1881. Digging
around I found that there was another church in Hartford that looks more
likely to me, the Talcott Street Congregational Church. I would
appreciate any information on this. I

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Philip Trauring
Fri, 7 Jun 2024 18:00:42 -0400
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Tomorrow is 157 years from the day Mark Twain set sail on the Quaker City for the trip that would form the basis of The Innocents Abroad. For those who may have been wondering about my posts over the last year on this list, I wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be releasing a new annotated edition of The Innocents Abroad in the near future. After a lot of research, and writing over 1200 footnotes, the book is almost ready to be published. 

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John R. Pascal
Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:03:24 -0400
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Enjoy! The first quote may not be attributable to Twain, but that’s not the point. Twain gets credit three times; Burns could have picked any other author three times and did not; I am sharing with all my classes!

https://youtu.be/9n1OqPzIKH4?si=eHpVK_Ra2heJaHLV
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Barbara Schmidt
Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:59:15 -0500
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BOOK REVIEW

_Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer and Social
Critic, 1869-1910_. By Leslie Diane Myrick and Gary Scharnhorst. University
of Alabama Press, 2024. Pp. 119. Hardcover: $110.00, ISBN 9780817321727.
Paperback: $29.95, ISBN 9780817361044.

Many books reviewed on the Mark Twain Forum are available at discounted
prices from the Twain Web Bookstore. Purchases from this site generate
commissions that benefit the Mark Twain Project. Please visit <
http://www.twainweb.net>

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