Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most of the year, Quarry Farm — the former summer home of famed author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain — is ...

WILTON - The transformation of a "Missouri ruffian" into the "Hartford luminary" known today as Mark Twain is explored in detail in a lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Wilton Historical ...

“I think when people see the Mark Twain lecture on American humor and culture, they go, ‘Oh, I’m not going to St. Mary’s College and hearing a lecture from a Ph.D in X, Y or Z, but I’m actually going ...

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Twain’s death, the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre will have Mark Twain (R. Rex Stephenson) share stories from his life. In addition, BRDT company members will perform ...

I will lecture for you any night between the 5th and 10th of February.” Mark Twain Twain would later become one of the best known and sought after speakers and raconteurs, both nationally and ...

Jerome Loving, who holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of English, is scheduled Tuesday to give a lecture on "Mark Twain and the Springs of Humor" in the season finale of the University ...

Since I was a boy those words have conjured an idyllic image of the essence and texture of America. Of paddle-wheelers and flatboats plying the Mississippi River as it drains the heart of our ...

For most of the year, Quarry Farm — the former summer home of famed author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain — is reserved for Twain scholars. But in the spring and fall each year, the ...