I apologize- MY mistake!!!! Martin Zehr --- On Thu, 11/29/12, Martin D. Zehr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Martin D. Zehr <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: CFP RMMLA To: [log in to unmask] Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 11:26 AM Jules,=A0 I've been corresponding with John Pascal about this conference, a= nd would like to submit a proposal.=A0 Specifically, I'd like to make a pre= sentation with a focus on a long-neglected "western" residence of Clemens, = the house where he was born and lived the first four years of his life in F= lorida, Missouri.=A0 The house still stands and is well preserved inside th= e museum, about thirty miles west of Hannibal.=A0 It is certainly symbolic = of Twain's "country" origins, not to mention the fact that most of Florida'= s first settlers were, like the Clemens and Quarles families, form slave-ho= lding Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.=A0 Also, the fact that even after m= oving to Hannibal, Sammy spent many summers on the Florida farm of his uncl= e, where he witnessed firsthand the life of the southern farm slave, includ= ing Uncle Dan'l. I realize some might not consider this one of Clemens's=A0 "western" reside= nces, but it was certainly part of the "west" at the time Sammy lived there= , when anything west of the Mississippi was more or less wilderness.=A0 Als= o, I think that, aside from Twainiacs, few people are even aware of the Flo= rida house or Florida as Clemens's birthplace. I have a number of photos I could use to supplement such presentation and, = since I'm on the Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Muse= um in Hannibal, I should have ready access to the archives in Hannibal and = Florida regarding the house and Sammy's years in and around Florida. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Martin Zehr Kansas City --- On Wed, 11/21/12, JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP RMMLA To: [log in to unmask] Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 10:23 AM Good morning Twain friends :) Just wanted to let you know that my special session for RMMLA was approved! Here is the CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS Mark Twain Panel Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference October 10-12, 2013=3D20 Vancouver, WASHINGTON (across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon - fl= =3D y into PDX!) at the Hilton Vancouver Washington Mark Twain The Western Residences of Mark Twain: Found in Fact or Fiction This panel is focusing on Mark Twain's "Residences" out west, converging on= =3D experiences or relationships while in that residence.=A0 Residences could = in=3D clude a friend's home, an apartment, a room in a hotel or even a tent.=A0 T= hi=3D s could include works written by Mark Twain, or other authors writing about= =3D him. This session invites academic papers, multi-media, or digital pieces on any= =3D aspect of Mark Twain's "home" while he was in the west. =3D20 By March 1, 2013, email or regular mail 300-word abstracts with the requisi= =3D te information as noted in the RMMLA call for papers guidelines,=A0 http://= rm=3D mla.wsu.edu/conferences/presenters.asp to Mrs. Jules A. Hojnowski, at [log in to unmask] or 1690 Trumansburg Rd, It= =3D haca, NY 14850 I am doing this panel in RMMLA, because there is one in SAMLA for the east = =3D coast people, and I know there are MANY Twain people on the west coast, who= =3D can't get to the east coast, so I like to give them equal opportunity to p= =3D resent.=A0 I would love to make this panel a permanent one someday, and I h= el=3D p at the conference every year, because it is an awesome conference :) I'll post this once a month, until I get enough papers for it :) For the new people on this list or new to conferences in general, there is = =3D a membership fee AND a registration fee, that must be paid to present.=A0 I= t =3D is not much, but there is one, so be sure that it can be paid before asking= =3D to be on the panel. Thank you so much! Jules