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And there's always the way we display the North American 1895 tour in 
Mark Twain in His Times -- it includes reviews and photos as well as 
map.  And you don't have to sign up for anything either!
"http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/onstage/world.html"
Steve Railton (Prof of English, Univ of Virginia)

On 8/27/2014 12:25 PM, Sharon K. Goetz wrote:
> Perhaps also of interest: "Mark Twain on the Platform," an exhibit that
> lists and maps lecture locations for four decades, including 1895-96.
> Unlike the Google map, it doesn't require the viewer to sign into a Google
> account. (For my part I cannot view Scott Holmes's map because Google Apps
> for Education, which underlies my employer's email service, authenticates
> users differently somehow.)
>
> http://www.marktwainproject.org/simile/platform/
>
> Best,
> Sharon
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Mark Twain set off on his Following the Equator tour with a number of
>> lectures across the North American continent, both US and Canadian
>> stops.  He doesn't mention them in the book but they did allow him to
>> refresh his oratory skills and perhaps not hate lecturing so much.  He
>> showed great resiliency and discipline seeing as how he was suffering a
>> nasty carbuncle that didn't heal up until he found an Australian doctor.
>> At least this is what I found in Autobiography of Mark Twain V1.
>>
>> Anyway, I have mapped his North American lecture locations in Google
>> Maps https://goo.gl/maps/PchIY for anyone interested.  I got the
>> location and dates from David Fears' Mark Twain Day By Day.  I purchased
>> the PDFs for the two years, 1895 and 1896.  I have not included much
>> detail in the site descriptions but there are a lot of stories to be
>> told here.  These are only the locations from Paris, France to Victoria,
>> Canada.  I will continue on with this project as time allows.
>>
> <http://twitter.com/mtpo>

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