Thanks, Steve.
I don't get home from work until 5:30 Pacific (8:30 Eastern); will the spectacle/trouble be recorded for later viewing?
BTW, I am 1/16th Native American, and the "one drop rule" should make me stark raving mad at Twain's negative view of "us," but for whatever reason his rantings in that direction have never bothered me at all. Then again, Irish "jokes" don't faze me, either.
- B. Clay Shannon 

    On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 04:02:14 AM PDT, Steve Courtney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  
 
 Greetings, all!

As some of you know, ten years ago I called Barb Snedecor and asked permission to pillage the name of the wonderful Center for Mark Twain Studies lecture series, "The Trouble Begins at Eight," altering it slightly for the early-to-bed Hartford audience: "The Trouble Begins at 5:30."

In the past decade we've welcomed more than 90 speakers on subjects ranging from literary to historical to domestic (the corset lecture comes to mind) to odd ("Mark Twain versus Sherlock Holmes" comes to mind). We have remained hand-in-hand with Elmira, which now under Joe Lemak has provided important support for the series, for which we are heartily grateful.

Our Tenth Anniversary Spring series was blitzed by the emergency. We still hope for the fall, but meanwhile we are injecting the spirit of the series into a series of virtual programs, via Crowdcast, staring Thursday -- at 5:30. We call it "Trouble at Home."

We'll feature a live interview of about half an hour with Dr. Kerry Driscoll, Associate Editor at the Mark Twain Project, Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Joseph, trustee of The Mark Twain House and Museum, and recent historian of Mark Twain's thorny relationship with Native Americans in Mark Twain and the Indians. Kerry, long associated with, and an important figure at the museum, was our first speaker in the series in May 2010. I'll  be asking her about her current work at the Project and anything else that crosses our minds.

Again, Thursday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m. EDT. Here's the link for registration (it's free). Enjoy!

marktwainhouse.org/TroubleAtHome/Kerry<https://outlook.office.com/mail/search/id/marktwainhouse.org/TroubleAtHomeKerry>

All best,
Steve

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