Hello all, I wrote up a brief post of the birthday, with the proclamation and some other material over at "Humor in America." http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/happy-mark-twain-name-day/ Remember: tomorrow is the deadline for abstracts for Elmira... http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/editors-chair-7th-international-conference-on-the-state-of-mark-twain-studies/ Best, Tracy On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ah, but you all also forgot and I get to be the first to say Happy Annivers= > ary! > Yesterday, Feb 2, 1870, was their wedding day, > So Happy 143 wedding anniversary :) > > Jules > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kent_Rasmusse= > n > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 4:46 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Happy Mark Twain becomes Mark Twain Day! > > Throughout this past week, I planned to be first to post a Mark Twain birth= > day message today. Now I see someone else has beaten me to it. Well,=3D > > it's good to know that this anniversary has not gone unnoticed. > Incidentally, the sesquicentennial of the "birth of "Mark Twain" would ma= > =3D ke a great theme--or subtheme--for this year's Elmira conference.