Good morning!
Joe Lemak took over the reins of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College a few years back, and many of us have gotten to know his and his colleague Matt Seybold’s dynamic approach to the Center’s work. The website<https://marktwainstudies.com/>, the blog giving opportunities to scholars to extend their reach far and wide, the survey of Quarry Farm’s  own needs for continued preservation – and of course the longstanding quadrennial State of Mark Twain Studies  conference -- comprise a vital part of the varied world of Mark Twain sites and scholarship.
This Thursday, August 20, at 5:30 p.m. EDT, Joe and Matt will be in conversation with Betsy Maguire in the next of the Mark Twain House & Museum’s “Trouble at Home” series. Again, the easily accessible, free, virtual event on the Crowdcast platform will lasts about 40-50 minutes, with a chance for questions from any or all of you viewers.
The subjects are expected to range from the Clemenses’ particular relationships with the world of Elmira to the manifold roles the Center plays – in its scholarship, its fellowships, its “The Trouble Begins at Eight” and Park Church lecture series – to make this slice of the Southern Tier in New York State a major locus of Twainiana. Interviewer Betsy Maguire is a brilliant playwright who founded the Living History program at the Hartford house that now makes it possible for Mark Twain House visitors to be led through the old place benefiting from the perspective of Livy Clemens, Katy Leary, Joe Twichell and others.
Free! Thursday! 5:30 p.m. EDT! To register, go here:  https://marktwainhouse.org/event/trouble-at-home-mark-twain-and-elmira/. (International Forum members: When prompted for a U.S. Zip code, just write “12345.”)
Best,
Steve



Steve Courtney, Curatorial Volunteer
The Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
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