Fall 'Trouble Begins' Lecture Series Continues Oct. 13
Elmira, NY (10/08/2021) — The fall 2021-2022 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies continues with a free lecture at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13, at Quarry Farm entitled "Sick of War or just the War Stories? Reading the Harper's Weekly Civil War Stories with Mark Twain," and presented by Joe B. Fulton of Baylor University.
Fulton focuses on Twain's popular Civil War story, "Lucretia Smith's Soldier." According to Fulton, when put in context with other war stories of the day, it is obvious that Twain was, in fact, sick of war stories and believed they contributed to our tolerance for war.
Joe B. Fulton is an author and professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he has been honored as a "Baylor University Class of 1945 Centennial Professor." Dr. Fulton has published five books on Mark Twain.
The Trouble Begins Lecture Series will continue on Wednesdays throughout October. Some are in-person presentations while others will be online presentations. Learn more at marktwainstudies.org.
October The Trouble Begins Lecture Series Schedule:
- Wed., Oct. 6: Online presentation, "Becoming Mark Twain," by Jeffrey Weissman (Listen to a recording HERE)
- Wed., Oct. 13: In-person presentation at 7 p.m. at Quarry Farm. Entitled, "Sick of War or just the War Stories? Reading the Harper's Weekly Civil War Stories with Mark Twain" and presented by Joe B. Fulton, Baylor University.
- Wed., Oct. 20: Online presentation, "Complementary Genius: The Sardonic Humor of Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain," by Richard Coronado, South Texas College.
- Wed., Oct. 27: In-person presentation at 7 p.m. at Quarry Farm. Entitled, "[T]ie some buttons on their tails, and let on they're rattlesnakes": Twain's Anti-sentimentality and Contemporary African American Satire" and presented by Sheri Marie-Harrison, University of Missouri.
About The Trouble Begins Lecture Series
In 1984, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title came from the handbill advertising Mark Twain's October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire's Academy of Music in San Francisco. The first lectures were presented in 1985. By invitation, Mark Twain scholars present lectures in the fall and spring of each year, in the Barn at Quarry Farm or at Peterson Chapel in Cowles Hall on Elmira College's campus. All lectures are free and open to the public.
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