Mark Twain’s 177th Birthday Celebration

Friday, November 30th in Historic Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus 7 p.m.
Mark Twain’s 177th Birthday Celebration

Mark Twain and America’s “Worst President”
Philip McFarland Author and Biographer

Remarks on the prickly relationship between Samuel L. Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt through two decades when their lives overlapped and modern America was formed.

Philip McFarland is the author of two works of fiction and six of nonfiction, including Hawthorne in Concord and Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His most recent book is Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century (2012).

Enjoy birthday cake and punch following the presentation