The Village Pariah Now Available at Mark Twain Museum

Monday, 02 August 2010 15:48

The Village Pariah, a biannual literary journal published by the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, is now available at both Mark Twain Museum Gift Shop locations.  Mark Twain, his hometown of Hannibal, the Mississippi River, the Midwest, and small town or rural life in America provide the inspiration and theme for the journal. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Powers wrote the introductory essay for this issue.

The Village Pariah can be purchases as a single issue ($12), PDF download ($5), or annual subscription ($20).  The journal will be published as Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter issues.

In addition to The Village Pariah, many other new titles are available, including:

A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey tells about love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martin Johnson Heade.

Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years by Karen Lystra recounts the family drama that took place during Twain's last decade.

Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens by Andrew Beahrs uses the palate of America's great humorist and satirist to celebrate and explore native foodstuffs and even make the case for him as a passionate locavore.

Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain and edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Fraink of the Mark Twain Project contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings.

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work by Shelley Fisher Fishken. In this unique collection scores of literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: José Martí, Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Min Jin Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others (including actor Hal Holbrook, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, stand-up comedians Dick Gregory and Will Rogers, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Barack Obama)

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden. In Twain’s remarkable late-life surge in vitality, Sheldon discerns the surprising origin of the author’s iconic image.

For more information, visit us online at http://marktwainmuseum.org.

NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:02

NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE

11:00 AM

SATURDAY, JULY 24

322 NORTH STREET

HANNIBAL

On Saturday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m., the Mark Twain Home Foundation will announce details of a multi-partner collaboration to restore an endangered historic property.

The property in question, known as the 1844 Van Swearingen House, has been donated to the Foundation. Unoccupied for several years, the house is sound but in need of immediate attention to be preserved.

On Saturday, details of the collaboration and project will be outlined. For more information contact Mark Twain Museum Curator, Henry Sweets at 573.221.9010 ext. 405.

Mark Twain Museum Announces Hannibal-LaGrange College Day

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:04 Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:03

The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, in conjunction with Hannibal-LaGrange College New Student Orientation Week, has announced “HLG Day” on Saturday, August 28^th. From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. all HLG students, staff and faculty will be admitted to the Museum free of charge. 

“The Museum is pleased to welcome the new freshmen in the hope that it will be a place they visit frequently,” says Ryan Murray, Mark Twain Museum Marketing & Community Relations Manager. “We provide monthly programs covering all sorts of topics, and we hope to welcome new participants from Hannibal-LaGrange College.”

During this time new students will be participating in a scavenger hunt in order to familiarize themselves with the downtown area.

"The Mark Twain Museum is such a valuable asset to the Hannibal community,” says Hannibal-LaGrange College Director of Student Activities, Margaret Street. “I am thrilled (for a second year in a row), to share it will the incoming HLG class of 2014."

In addition to freshmen, all HLG faculty, staff and current students are welcome. The Museum consists of 8 properties including: The Interpretive Center, Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Boyhood Home Gift Shop, Huckleberry Finn House, Becky Thatcher House (undergoing restoration), J.M. Clemens Justice of the Peace Office, Grant’s Drug Store and the Mark Twain Museum Gallery. The Museum is always free to Hannibal residents.

To be admitted to the Museum, one must simply provide a student/staff/faculty identification card. For more information please visit http://marktwainmuseum.org or call 573.221.9010 ext. 404.

Mark Twain Museum Announces "The Village Pariah"

Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:36

The Village Pariah, a biannual literary journal published by the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, has launched its inaugural issue containing poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.  Mark Twain, his hometown of Hannibal, the Mississippi River, the Midwest, and small town or rural life in America provide the inspiration and theme for the journal. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Powers wrote the introductory essay for this issue.

“The idea grew out of the writers’ workshops we’ve held here at the Museum,” said Cindy Lovell, executive director.  “Mark Twain is always our model and inspiration.  Publishing such a journal is in keeping with the Museum’s mission to preserve and promote Twain’s legacy.”

Editors Emily Hayes and Danny Wilson of Carbondale, Illinois are alumni of the Museum’s teacher workshops and writers’ workshops.  Submissions for the journal were received from all around the country from both established writers as well as previously unpublished writers.  “We were impressed with the quality of submissions,” said Hayes.  “This made it a challenge to edit, but a better journal.”

The Village Pariah can be purchases as a single issue ($12), PDF download ($5), or annual subscription ($20).  The journal will be published as Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter issues.

For more information visit: http://marktwainmuseum.org.