Mystery on Staten Island
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
About the Trip
A Northwestern University journalism student, professor and 2011 graduate are driving 13,500 miles around the United States between Sept. 18 and Dec. 11 for a project titled “Traveling with Twain in Search of America’s Identity.” The three will follow the path that a young Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) took by stagecoach, steamship and train during trips east to New York, south to New Orleans and west to San Francisco during the 1850s and 1860s; they will interview a variety of Americans about race, immigration-status and other current identity issues and talk with members of a representative American family, the Ghigliones, that first immigrated to the United States from northern Italy in the 1870s. Read more >>
Follow the Trip
A 45-year search for my great-grandfather ends with a taxi ride around Staten Island
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
Chandelier of Harlem
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
Twain and the Elmira Correctional Facility
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
Read about us somewhere other than twaintrip.com!
In case you were wondering about the fabulously exciting inner-workings of the Twain Trip, Northwestern publication NU Intel did a little piece on us. “A cross-country road trip in a crowded van might conjure images of … Read more
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Twain's Evolution
- Natalie Sheppard discusses being a black Mormon in the Salt Lake City area
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- Family history abounds in Kansas
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Immigration Stories
- What Julie Pham learned managing a Vietnamese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest
- From the Mekong to the Mississippi
- Alameda Ghigliones demonstrate the immigrant entrepreneurial spirit with produce business, trucking company
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Race and Ethnicity
- What Julie Pham learned managing a Vietnamese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest
- From the Mekong to the Mississippi
- Natalie Sheppard discusses being a black Mormon in the Salt Lake City area
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Gender Identity
- Before Occupy Wall Street there was The Greening of America
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- Joanna Hernandez, president of Unity, tackles challenge of diversity in newsrooms
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