And there's always the way we display the North American 1895 tour in Mark Twain in His Times -- it includes reviews and photos as well as map. And you don't have to sign up for anything either! "http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/onstage/world.html" Steve Railton (Prof of English, Univ of Virginia) On 8/27/2014 12:25 PM, Sharon K. Goetz wrote: > Perhaps also of interest: "Mark Twain on the Platform," an exhibit that > lists and maps lecture locations for four decades, including 1895-96. > Unlike the Google map, it doesn't require the viewer to sign into a Google > account. (For my part I cannot view Scott Holmes's map because Google Apps > for Education, which underlies my employer's email service, authenticates > users differently somehow.) > > http://www.marktwainproject.org/simile/platform/ > > Best, > Sharon > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Mark Twain set off on his Following the Equator tour with a number of >> lectures across the North American continent, both US and Canadian >> stops. He doesn't mention them in the book but they did allow him to >> refresh his oratory skills and perhaps not hate lecturing so much. He >> showed great resiliency and discipline seeing as how he was suffering a >> nasty carbuncle that didn't heal up until he found an Australian doctor. >> At least this is what I found in Autobiography of Mark Twain V1. >> >> Anyway, I have mapped his North American lecture locations in Google >> Maps https://goo.gl/maps/PchIY for anyone interested. I got the >> location and dates from David Fears' Mark Twain Day By Day. I purchased >> the PDFs for the two years, 1895 and 1896. I have not included much >> detail in the site descriptions but there are a lot of stories to be >> told here. These are only the locations from Paris, France to Victoria, >> Canada. I will continue on with this project as time allows. >> > <http://twitter.com/mtpo>