Good morning!

The Mark Twain House & Museum’s “Trouble at Home” virtual interview series continues tomorrow (Thursday, July 9, at 5:30 p.m. EDT) with a treat –- the genial and eloquent K. Patrick Ober, M.D., of the Wake Forest School of Medicine, in conversation with yours truly on “Mark Twain and Epidemics.” In truth, our discussion will cover the ever-intriguing subject of Mark Twain and medicine more broadly as we bear down on the specifics. And who better to enlighten us than Pat, whose work Mark Twain and Medicine: Any Mummery Can Cure (Missouri, 2003) is a classic?

As you are no doubt aware, in his late-life essay “The Turning Point of My Life” Clemens ascribes his literary career to an outbreak of measles in the Mississippi Valley. His bad behavior during a cholera epidemic in Athens led to his spectacular description of the Parthenon by moonlight in Innocents. And Pat has made extensive discoveries linking fears of spreading illness to a major rebuilding of portions of the Hartford house in 1881.

It’s free, and I hope you’ll tune in! To register, go here: https://marktwainhouse.org/event/TroubleAtHomeEpidemics . (International Forum members,: When prompted for a U.S. Zip code, just write “12345.”)

Best,

Steve

P.S. Past sessions of “Trouble at Home” are available here:

https://marktwainhouse.org/recordedvirtualevents


Steve Courtney
Curatorial Special Projects Coordinator
The Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
860-302-8969