Submitted by scott on Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:49
First Church in Oberlin

February 11, 1885: Sam and Cable gave a reading sponsored by the Union Library Association, at the First Congregational Church, Oberlin, Ohio. Reviews were mixed [Cardwell 58].  Clemens included: “Tragic Tale of the Fishwife,” “A Trying Situation,” “A Ghost Story,” and “Incorporated Company of Mean Men” [MTPO]. (Fears, "Mark Twain Day By Day). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_Church_of_Christ 

"First Church in Oberlin" by Jack E. Boucher - Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division HABS: OHIO,47-OBER,1-3. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Church_in_Oberlin.jpg#/media/File:First_Church_in_Oberlin.jpg

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