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“The Bosses of the Senate,” political cartoon by Joseph Keppler. First published in Puck (January 23, 1889)
The public is invited to attend the 2026 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies and supported by the generous donations of The Mark Twain Foundation. The free lectures will kick off at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the Barn at Quarry Farm with a presentation by Caroline Levine, David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University.
Entitled “To Sit Home and Grumble: Politics and Agency in our Own Gilded Age,” Levine’s presentation compares the public outcry expressed about corruption in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, written by Mark Twain and Charles Warner, with similar outcries today about climate change. People in both times “grumble” but often take no action. Levine will share insights on why people sit at home instead of taking action and what people can do to feel more empowered.
Levine is the author of four books, including Forms and The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis. She is a climate activist who helped push Cornell to divest its endowment of fossil fuels and now serves on the coordinating committee of TIAA-Divest. She is writing a book that fights back against cynicism and feelings of powerlessness in the climate crisis.
The 2026 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series Schedule. All lectures start at 7:00 p.m., in the Barn at Quarry Farm, and are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, Oct. 9: “To Sit Home and Grumble: Politics and Agency in our Own Gilded Age,” by Caroline Levine, Cornell University
Wednesday, Oct. 14: “Mark Twain, Hemispheric Humorist,” by Todd Nathan Thompson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, Oct. 21: “Mark Twain’s Election Advice: Vote Your Conscience! Elect Candidates of Integrity Who Put Your Country’s Interest above Party Loyalty and Aggrandizement” by Donald T. Bliss, Independent Scholar
Wednesday, Oct. 28: “The Mundane Transcendence of Mark Twain’s Late Style” by Ray Horton, Murray State University
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 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.
