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The Center for Mark Twain Studies announced the winners of its annual elementary school writing contest focused on the fireplace tiles in the Quarry Farm parlor.
The winners of the 2025 Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest are:
Avi Granger, Frederick Carder Elementary School (Corning, NY)
Luna Liu, Frederick Carder Elementary School (Corning, NY)
Katelynn Watkins, Frederick Carder Elementary School (Corning, NY)
Avi Granger of Frederick Carder Elementary School was one of three winners of the 2025 Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest.
Their task was to write a short fable based on one of the tiles that surround a fireplace in the house at Quarry Farm, where Twain and his family summered for more than 20 years and where he penned portions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
The tiles feature characters from Aesop’s Fables, a collection of fables written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Legend has it that every night, Twain’s daughters insisted their father tell them a bedtime story based on the tiles. They required him to invent a completely new story every night; he couldn’t retell the Ancient Greek parables. The daughters would then summarily judge whether the story had any merit.
Luna Liu of Frederick Carder Elementary School was one of three winners of the 2025 Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest.
The contest is one of the ways CMTS encourages area elementary school teachers to discuss Mark Twain’s legacy in Elmira and the Southern Tier region of New York State. Students in second grade through sixth grade from schools in a 25-mile radius of Quarry Farm can submit creative writing stories. CMTS invites the student winners and their class to Quarry Farm to read their stories in front of the fireplace, just as Mark Twain did over a century ago. The students are then treated to Mark Twain’s favorite dessert: gingerbread, vanilla ice cream, and lemonade.
Katelynn Watkins of Frederick Carder Elementary School was one of three winners of the 2025 Quarry Farm Fireplace Writing Contest.
Images of the fireplace tiles and a full virtual tour of Quarry Farm can be found at MarkTwainStudies.org. Beyond the writing competition, CMTS provides educational resources about Mark Twain and his local legacy for students, teachers, and the general public.
Teachers interested in participating can contact Dr. Joseph Lemak, Director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies, at jlemak@elmira.edu.
