The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies announces its 1999
Spring Lecture Series "The Trouble Begins at Eight."

April 28, 1999
"Failed Families and the Crisis of Connectedness in _Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn_"
Maureen Donohue-Smith
    Dr. Donohue-Smith is Assistant Professor of Human Services at Elmira
College.

May 12, 1999
"Riding a Comet -- The Humble Beginnings of Samuel L. Clemens"
John Huffman
    Mr. Huffman is the Historic Site Administrator at the Mark Twain
Birthplace State Historic Site.

May 26, 1999
"How Mark Twain Parented His Young Children"
Victor Doyno
    Dr. Doyno is Professor of English at the State University of New
York at Buffalo.

All lectures are free and open to the public.  Lectures begin at 8 p.m.
and are held at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York.
For more information or to make a reservation, call (607) 735-1800.