Center for Mark Twain Studies Hosts Sixth Quarry Farm Symposium
Elmira, NY (10/11/2019) — The Center for Mark Twain Studies recently hosted the Sixth Quarry Farm Symposium, an event that brings scholars together to examine and discuss various topics of all things Twain. The symposium started on Friday, October 4 and concluded on Sunday, October 6. Scholars from Japan, France, Hawaii, Nevada, California, and from all over the United States gathered together in Elmira, New York, the historic home of the Langdon family, the Mark Twain Study, and Quarry Farm - the place where, over the span of over twenty consecutive summers, Twain wrote some of the most iconic texts in American literature.
This year's Symposium was titled, "Mark Twain and Nature." The natural world figures prominently in the writings of Mark Twain, whether as the main object of description and commentary as in Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It or as an inextricable element of fictional narratives such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and more.
To read the full recap, visit MarkTwainStudies.org.
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