The Trouble Begins at Eight
2002 Spring Lecture Series

Wednesday, May 8, 2002, In the Barn at Quarry Farm, 8 P.M.
Mark Dawidziak, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

"Horton Foote's 'The Shape of the River:' The Rediscovery of a
Television Play about Mark Twain"

Mark Dawidziak is an author and a television critic at the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.  His juried version of this paper, on Horton Foote's "The
Shape of the River," was first presented on the Panel: Mark Twain and
Visual Representation, at Elmira 2001: The Fourth International
Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies, August 18, 2001.

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, In the Barn at Quarry Farm, 8 P.M.
Dr. Alan Gribben, Montgomery, Alabama

"New Shelves in Mark Twain's Library"

Dr. Alan Gribben is Professor and Head of the Department of English and
Philosophy, Auburn University at Montgomery.  He is the editor and
author of numerous Mark Twain articles and books, including Mark Twain's
Library: A Reconstruction, 2 Vols. Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1980.
Dr. Gribben is a long-time friend and advisor to the Elmira College
Center for Mark Twain Studies.

Wednesday, May 22, 2002, In the Barn at Quarry Farm, 8 P.M.
Dr. R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, California

"How I Came to Write Mark Twain A to Z"

Dr. R. Kent Rasmussen is this season's Quarry Farm Research Fellow in
residence.  He is an author and the Editor of Salem Press in Pasadena.
His books on Mark Twain include Mark Twain A to Z, (Facts on File 1995),
Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls (Chicago 1995), and The
Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Brief
Opinions (Chicago 1997).

We appreciate reservations, but they are not necessary. You may reserve
your seat by call Nina Skinner at the Elmira College Center for Mark
Twain Studies at 607-735-1941, or send an email to
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