The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford
Friday, October 29, 2010

So what is Steampunk?

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This Saturday at 2:00 (that's TOMORROW!), The Mark Twain House & Museum is thrilled to announce the first of several Steampunk event...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

TWAIN & SHAKESPEARE

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This Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, the basement of The Mark Twain House will become a theatre – a spooky theatre, to be sure. Cap...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

TWAIN'S BRRRAAAAIIINNNSSSS...

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In 2009, Quirk Classics exhumed a dark and comic twist on Jane Austen with Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Class...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

All of us contain Music & Truth

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This Saturday, The Mark Twain House will collaborate with many of our neighbors to present an evening of Music and Truth related to our favo...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Banned Book Week

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A post by our fantastic new curatorial assistant, Mallory Howard. In honor of banned book week, I thought it would be interesting to take a ...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Weddings and dinners and all sorts of things!

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The Mark Twain House & Museum is thrilled to announce that we are re-invigorating our facilities rentals. That's a really boring wa...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

"The Gilded Age" Onstage

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In advance of Ellen Faith Brodie and David Pellegrini of Eastern Connecticut State University's September 16th reading of a new stage ad...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Mark Twain’s Connecticut

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The Mark Twain House & Museum is very pleased to be collaborating with the folks at the Wilton Historical Society (Wilton, CT) and the M...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Double Blog

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The Mark Twain House & Museum is constantly working on several projects at once-- you may have noticed our advertising for our Ghost Tou...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Scholarly Pursuits

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At Boston University on August 20-22, three staff members of The Mark Twain House & Museum will be giving lectures at the Twain/Tolstoy ...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Letter from a Fan

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We asked one of our most frequent Mark Twain House facebook commenters about her enthusiasm for Twain. She wrote us this lovely letter. Th...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

10 Moustaches We Love

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Tomorrow's Summer Social and Moustache Party will be just that-- a party. Amongst all of these lectures, musical tributes, family even...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Greatest Person from Back Then Ever

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One of our current exhibitions in our Museum Center is Legacy: an examination of how Mark Twain’s presence still lives with us today. After...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A Quagmire of Quotations

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Mark Twain is justly known for his many quips, witticisms and pithy observations. Across his novels, short stories, letters, speeches, pla...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Is The Mark Twain House really haunted?

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Shortly after I arrived at The Mark Twain House & Museum a year ago, I received an inquiry from the Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA), ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

A Drag Queen at The Mark Twain House? Really?

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On Friday, June 18th at 8 p.m., The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes international chanteuse and drag comedian Varla Jean Merman for a...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Free Saturdays of Summer

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One thing that we at the Mark Twain House love about Hartford is how often our nonprofits collaborate. We have two big free Saturdays coming...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Mark Twain Talks to Us

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In 2003, as I was researching a biography of Mark Twain’s best friend – a minister, if it can be believed – I got a chance to spend several ...
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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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