In August 2019, I took a three-week writing fellowship at Quarry Farm, the family home where Mark Twain spent summers and penned much of his best-known work for two decades. Below are some photographs taken during my stay. I discuss the beneficial impact the fellowship had on my work in a post published on the Center for Mark Twain Studies website.

During the summers Twain spent at Quarry Farm, he would read drafts of new work aloud to his family on the porch in the evening.

Samuel Clemens’s luggage

The poem “Quicksand Years” has been marked with a double slash in a copy otherwise light on marginalia.

Cryptic, handwritten note in the back reads: “The rarest & sweetest lie I ever heard is the”