The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford
Monday, August 31, 2009

Would Mark Twain have tried to sell his family on Craigslist?

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For the past few weeks The Mark Twain House staff has been busy putting together the final touches on our upcoming What Would Twain Tweet (W...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

We've Gone Green

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When The Mark Twain House & Museum Visitor's Center opened in November of 2003, it became the first museum in the nation with a LE...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Come play at the Mark Twain House!

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...AND meet Mr. Twain himself! In Lego form that is. If you've visited The Mark Twain House & Museum since April you may have seen a...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Recent celebrity deaths and Twain

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Recently, it has been hard to avoid the media coverage of celebrity deaths. Famous figures including Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, an...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

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Happy Birthday Mr. Tesla! (July 10, 1856) Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the world's most re nowned thinkers and inventors when it c...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Happy 4th of July!

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If you've ever wondered what Mark Twain thought of the 4th of July and patriotism... brace yourself. An article in the Cleveland Examine...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Welcome to the family!

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As of this week, The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes an icebox into the collections family! The icebox, circa 1890, has gone through...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A note on Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass

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Never heard of him? You sure? I think you have. T.J. Snodgrass, an early Mark Twain. Clemens used many different pen names in his early care...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Mark Twain on Islam and Christianity

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Last October, The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y., got an unexpected gift: A copy of William C. Prime’s Ten...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Did You Know?

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When Mark Twain was a young man he traveled all across the United States. When he was in his mid-thirties he traveled to the West and witnes...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

A Wine Tasting

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The Mark Twain House & Museum cordially invites all of you to a glamorous evening of wine tasting, food sampling and music at 351 Farmin...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Mark Twain in Popular Culture

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There's been talk amongst some Mark Twain House staff lately about different shows and movies that Mark Twain appears in, so I thought I...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

12th Annual Young Writers Competition Awards Ceremony

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After 11 years at the Litchfield Inn, the Young Writers Competition Awards Ceremony has moved to The Mark Twain House & Museum! This co...

Who doesn't love LEGO?

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We all remember LEGO from our childhood. Well, at least I do. Being able to build houses and cars and then take them apart and do it all ove...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

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Bill Cosby has been named the most recent honoree for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ! The Mark Twain Prize is considered the top p...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Public Resignation

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AIG (American International Group) has been in the news a lot lately, so it's not surprising that AIG showed up in the New York Times t...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Road Trip!

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Craig Hotchkiss, the Education Department Program Manager here at the Twain House has taken his show on the road! Along with Sonya Green, th...
Friday, March 6, 2009

2010: The Year of Mark Twain ... 2013: The Year of the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin

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There is currently a petition going around to make 2010: The Year of Mark Twain. 2010 is the centennial of Mark Twain's death and Twain...
Friday, February 27, 2009

1893 to 2009

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I was reading an article the other day about a couple in Los Angeles who had to move out of their home and into an Airstream trailer in Ore...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Race in America

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I'm sure that many of you have read the news articles on the Attorney General's speech at the Justice Department about race. If you ...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Welcome!

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Welcome to the first edition of The Mark Twain House & Museum blog! In order to keep fans and visitors updated about how we're doing...
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We are located in Hartford, Connecticut, and celebrate the life of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The home where he spent 17 years with his wife and daughters has been preserved as a testimony to his life and times.
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