Donna Abercrombie of Munster invited me to attend a Sept. 9 luncheon with the lure of her “special guest speaker being Mark Twain.” ...
The 104-acre estate known as Knollwood also served as the summer White House for President William Howard Taft from 1910 to ...
Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...
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Mark Twain and his family are buried in the Langdon family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY. The plot originally belonged to Twain’s father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, and contains 28 burials.
Mark Twain’s many lives. A new biography depicts the different sides of the American author. Some people live several lives. Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his ...
As San Francisco’s summer lives up to its blustery reputation with a colder-than-usual run of chilly, foggy weather, an oft-repeated quote is again making the rounds: “The coldest winter I ever spent ...
“Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, 1200 pages, $45. Mark Twain was first encountered by the reviewer as the avuncular, white-haired visage joining the purple-clad Robert Louis Stevenson and ...
Re: “Mark Twain’s words about patriotism can ease our injured pride” (July 6, Northwest): Columnist Danny Westneat reflected well on Mark Twain’s wisdom that “ … true patriotism … is loyalty to the ...