Hello all, I have updated the website with Hal Holbrook in Elmira. Thanks to the generous permission of Patrick Ober, I posted the audio he made of Mr. Holbrook speaking about the influence of Twain scholarship on his own career (the audio plays with a video I made of Elmira College--my first computer editing attempt). I also posted some of Patrick's pictures (with his permission, of course) at the bottom of the site. I have decided against a transcription of the event--partially due to time constraints, but also due to the importance of the performance. Plagiarizing myself: "Elsewhere, Twain noted that a written report of a speech conveys nothing of the living essence of the speech and no more conveys “that lecture to the reader than a person represents a *man* to you when he ships you the corpse.”[1] <#_ftn1> The website with the recordings is: http://quarryfarm2009.blogspot.com/ Enjoy, Tracy Wuster American Studies, UT Austin ------------------------------ [1] <#_ftnref> Quoted in Lorch, 106.