Eldridge Park in Elmira, NY in the 1960's
My mom, her brothers, and their family at Eldridge Park in the 1960's. The music is the Dixieland Jass Band One-Step by the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain - Intro
Introduction: . Free audiobook of Mark Twain's 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Audio courtesy of Librivox.
INTRODUCTION
Born irreverent, scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, --like all other people I have ever known or heard of--I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of. --[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine]
Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, O that we had a Rabelais! Mark impishly and anonymously--submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the bad boy of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy. Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark's make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world.
WHO WROTE 1601?
The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.] 'Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.' For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed. In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90's, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. Ball's original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain.
Many people, said Reedy, thought the thing was done by Field and attributed, as a joke, to Mark Twain. Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow--not hard and bright and bitter--to be Eugene Field's. Reedy's opinion hits off the fundamental difference between these two great humorists; one half suspects that Reedy was thinking of Field's French Crisis.
But Twain first claimed his bantling from the fog of anonymity in 1906, in a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Orr, librarian of Case Library, Cleveland. Said Clemens, in the course of his letter, dated July 30, 1906, from Dublin, New Hampshire:
The title of the piece is 1601. The piece is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others, and is not, as John Hay mistakenly supposes, a serious effort to bring back our literature and philosophy to the sober and chaste Elizabeth's time; if there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it. I hasten to assure you that it is not printed in my published writings.
TWITTING THE REV. JOSEPH TWICHELL
The circumstances of how 1601 came to be written have since been officially revealed by Albert Bigelow Paine in 'Mark Twain, A Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).
1601 was written during the summer of 1876 when the Clemens family had retreated to Quarry Farm in Elmira County, New York. Here Mrs. Clemens enjoyed relief from social obligations, the children romped over the countryside, and Mark retired to his octagonal study, which, perched high on the hill, looked out upon the valley below. It was in the famous summer of 1876, too, that Mark was putting the finishing touches to Tom Sawyer. Before the close of the same year he had already begun work on 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', published in 1885. It is interesting to note the use of the title, the Duke of Bilgewater, in Huck Finn when the Duchess of Bilgewater had already made her appearance in 1601. Sandwiched between his two great masterpieces, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the writing of 1601 was indeed a strange interlude.
Sam Clemens and Mark Twain: Life and Times of a Mysterious Twin with Jim Warren
Jim Warren, Professor of English Emeritus, presents the first session from the Alumni College's The Life and Times of Mark Twain. If you search for the works of Mark Twain in any public library, look under the letter C, for Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). One of the most beloved of American writers, Mark Twain was actually an invention. When we think of Twain, we imagine the wry humorist in the white suit, a celebrity stage performer reading his works and telling his stories to audiences in the American era he called the Gilded Age. But we could also imagine Twain and Clemens as twins, a man and an image that are not always distinguishable from one another.
Elmira Prison Camp | Path Through History | WSKG
ELMIRA PRISON CAMP | Chemung County
After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1861, the country erupted into Civil War and Elmira became an integral part of the North’s war effort. At first, railroad lines that crisscrossed the area brought raw recruits to train at Camp Rathbun located within the city.
As the war raged on, Camp Rathbun fell into disuse and in July 1864, a part of its 30 acres was converted into a prison to house the increasing numbers of Confederate prisoners of war. Between the summer of 1864 and the fall of 1865, Elmira Prison Camp housed more than 12,000 southern prisoners. Conditions were atrocious, and about one out of every four prisoners would perish from a variety of causes.
Many of the Confederate dead are buried in nearby Woodlawn National Cemetery. After the war, the camp was closed and dismantled, and while much of the camp has disappeared from the landscape, its importance continues to make it part of New York’s Path Through History.
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The Chemung County Historical Society
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#Drug Money -Episode 2 - #Caught A Lick - Elmira Ny -2015
#Drug Money -Episode 2 - #Caught A Lick - Elmira Ny -2015
In Episode 2 - the death of his Former worker Terrance seems to bother him .... With a potential baby on the way Luckyme deal with drama from both of the women in his life while tryna plan the perfect lick .. #607 215 1620
Southern Finger Lakes - Travels With Darley - :60 Promo
Combine hands-on art with adrenaline pumping adventures, soar above Mark Twain Country, learn glassblowing in America’s Crystal City, walk amid waterfalls in Watkins Glen State Park, and enjoy stand up paddle boarding on stunning Keuka Lake. Travelers join Darley and local experts to explore history, wine, and culture in the Southern Finger Lakes.
Watch for the full episode on a PBS station near you.
Elmira College: Remembering the Past for a Stronger Future
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Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called The Great American Novel.
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. His humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it—notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even after he had no legal responsibility to do so.
Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well; he died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the greatest humorist this country has produced, and William Faulkner called him the father of American literature.
Lackawanna Cut-Off - Part 17: The Future of the Cut-Off (2018-Onward)
In this video, we will look at the future of rail service on the Cut-Off west of Andover, NJ and visit a total of 25 locations (four in New Jersey and twenty-one in Pennsylvania), including all of the projected NJ Transit stations and several Lackawanna Railroad historic stations. While we can't give exact costs and timelines, Larry Malski (in his 4th and final interview segment) will provide some of this detail.
Lazlo Hollyfeld - Pro Audio (Live) - Lafayette Square, Buffalo NY
Lazlo Hollyfeld - Pro Audio (Live) - Lafayette Square, Buffalo NY
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Victor Makovitch
Before Victor came to Carroll County, MD, he lived in Pennsylvania and New York in the middle of the Great Depression.
The Innocence Project: Reflections on Wrongful Imprisonment
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Innocence Project: Reflections on Wrongful Imprisonment
Guest Speakers: Mr. Fernando Bermudez and Olga Akselrod, Innocence Project Staff Attorney
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of Tom Robinson, a man convicted of a crime he did not commit. Although Lee's story takes place in the deep south in the 1930s, wrongful imprisonment continues today all over the world. Join us as Mr. Fernando Bermudez tells us how he was wrongly convicted of murder and spent 18 years in prison. Also joining us will be Olga Akselrod, staff attorney at the Innocence Project, a national litigation public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
1:10 pm to 3:00 pm
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