Although “Twain’s Geography” has been removed from the Web, I continue to work on it on my home computer. I have been incorporating David Fears’ “Mark Twain Day By Day” entries, courtesy of the Center from Mark Twain Studies. I had reached the summer of 1880, when the Clemens family summered at Quarry Farm. August 3rd saw the arrival and speech of Fredrick Douglass at the Emancipation Day celebrations in Elmira, just a short distance from the farm.

David Fears' Mark Twain Day By Day has provided me with an excellent base for the where and when of Mark Twain.  This is quite significant when trying to determine Twain's Geography.  I have found we have something in common in that our projects do not deal specifically with Twain's literature.  I can't speak for Fears' motivations except to note that he seems to have wanted to get a handle on what was happening in the man's life at that moment.  For myself, I want to find indications of Twain's interpretation of his where and when.  As I've mentioned before, Twain is my Virgil through a to