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The spring 2023 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS), begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 10 in the Barn at Quarry Farm and will continue each Wednesday through the end of May. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website.
The first lecture, "’Somewhere Between Where You Live and Where I Live is the Place Where We Ought to Live’: The Friendship Between the Revs. Thomas K. Beecher and Joseph H. Twichell” will be presented by author Steve Courtney, who works in the publication and curatorial areas of The Mark Twain House and Museum.
Courtney will discuss the relationship between Thomas K. Beecher and the Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Their frank and warm relationship provides a fascinating tale and casts light on the social background of Mark Twain. Beecher, of Elmira, was an outspoken nineteenth-century minister who turned his Park Congregational church into a force in the community, rejected creeds, and espoused a populist form of politics. Twichell, of Hartford, Connecticut ministered to a gilt-edged church, was a friend and traveling companion to Mark Twain, and remained relatively conservative and placid throughout his life. The two men co-officiated at Samuel and Livy Clemens’s wedding and occasionally swapped pulpits. They remained close despite their differences.
Courtney is the author of, Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend, winner of the Connecticut Book Award for ‘The Loveliest Home That Ever Was’: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford; and author of Mark Twain’s Hartford, among other works. He is a co-editor of The Mark Twain-Joseph Hopkins Twichell Letters. Also, he was a journalist for forty years, primarily at The Hartford Courant.
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 Barn at Quarry Farm during the fall and spring of each year. All lectures are free and open to the public.
