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Cover of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Coloring Book” #354. Treasure Books, Inc. (1960)
The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) at Elmira College will hold its final lecture in the 2026 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series, on May 27 at the historic Barn at Quarry Farm, 131 Crane Road. The lecture begins at 7:00 a.m. and is free and open to the public.
The final lecture features Maggie Morris Davis, author of Reading the Classed Child: The Language of Depression-Era Children in Poverty. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. Her work has most recently been published in American Quarterly, Children’s Literature, and Resources for American Literary Study, as well as several edited collections.
Morris Davis will discuss how illustrations of Twain’s young characters, including the 1885 illustrations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a used 1960s mass-produced coloring book, and Philip Stead and Erin Stead’s The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine (a children’s book adaptation of archival notes of a bedtime story that Mark Twain told his daughters), show a hierarchy of class and race. Morris Davis will offer close readings of the illustrations within The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, to illuminate intersectional differences that might otherwise go unnoticed and challenge the claims of the authors and illustrators that their work is politically neutral.
Along with all previous Trouble Begins lectures, this lecture will be recorded and posted to the CMTS website.
In 1984, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight. 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 fall and spring of each year, in the Barn at Quarry Farm or at Peterson Chapel in Cowles Hall on Elmira College's campus. All lectures are free and open to the public.
