I am extremely grateful that David Fears' work is now available on-
line. I have relied on his generosity to me for several years worth of
material he has given to me for my Twainsgeography site. When engaged
in a geographically oriented project, the location and temporal
information can be very important.
On Mon, 2019-01-14 at 11:34 -0500, Matthew Seybold wrote:
> If you come by MarkTwainStudies.org today, you’ll notice we have a
> fresh new design.
>
> When we launched two years ago, we relied on a webmaster with limited
> coding skill who was literally colorblind (aka, me).
>
> As the site grew, existing materials got buried and new opportunities
> eclipsed our technical capabilities.
>
> No longer.
>
> Paul Stonier Design has created a better looking and more functional
> site, and will continue to consult for CMTS going forward.
>
> Even more exciting than the new look, however, is that you now have
> access to a fully-searchable digital edition of David Fears’s MARK
> TWAIN DAY BY DAY.
>
> As many of you know, David’s immense chronology of Samuel Clemens’s
> life, published between 2008 and 2014, is a unique reference. We are
> incredibly grateful to Mr. Fears for entrusting us with the fruit of
> his exhaustive labors, as well as to Leslie Myrick, who converted the
> print volumes to HTML (another Herculean task).
>
> Until now, there has been relatively limited access to the print
> volumes of DAY BY DAY. We are thrilled to be able to make them
> available to students, teachers, independent scholars, and all
> varieties of Twainiac. We can’t wait to see what they do with this
> resource.
>
> There will, of course, be some trouble-shooting with the new site
> over the coming weeks. Please let us know if you run into any
> technical difficulties.
>
> Happy browsing!
>
> - MS
>
> ***************
> Matt Seybold
> Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies
> Elmira College
> Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org
> MattSeybold.com
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