As the Northwestern journalism student, professor and graduate follow the path of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) east to New York, south to New Orleans and west to San Francisco they will be posting their observations and interviews daily. Read more >>
Mapping all posts from the road (Enlarge).
We met with Michael Kupperman in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on a windy New York day. Kupperman is an American cartoonist and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker. His most recent book Mark Twain’s … Read more
In Dan’s video you can follow our drive around Staten Island with Roger’s Effehi, a United Cars taxi driver from Nigeria, in search of where my great-grandfather and his family lived at the end of the … Read more
Columbus Day, what better day to recall the story about Mark Twain and his prankster pals hoodwinking an Italian tourist guide, who believed American travelers wanted to know the tiniest tidbit about “Christo Columbo.” When the … Read more
This is Chandelier, one of the first people we talked to in New York City. We met her after having brunch at Red Rooster in Harlem. Chandelier has aspirations to be famous. Video by Dan
Follow our tour of the Elmira Correctional Facility with Superintendent Paul Chappius and Deputy Superintendent Steve Wenderlich. During his Elmira years, Twain tested his lectures on prisoners. Video by Dan
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