Mark Twain: History & Typesetting at the SLT Library - Canceled

This Event Has Been Canceled The Adventures of Mark Twain, Tahoe and the Territorial Enterprise Newspaper in Virginia City. Join the Friends of the Library for an illustrated talk by Steve Robison, printer at Tahoe Letterpress. Mr. Robison will explain how Mark Twain wound up in Virginia City, and on occasion in the Lake Tahoe basin. He will also share his discovery of a vast collection of antique 1860's type from the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City where Mark Twain was a reporter and city editor during the early silver discoveries of the Comstock Lode. Steve will show us some of the type that Mark Twin may have touched, and you can touch it too! He will also educate us about Mark Twain's early training in typesetting, showing us the tools and techniques involved. Twain and typesetting... what an educational evening! Free and open to all.

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