Trouble Begins: The Nook Farm of the Clemenses & Stowes

For the first Trouble Begins lecture of the fall 2020 season, The Mark Twain House & Museum is thrilled to host Elizabeth Burgess, Director of Collections & Research at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, in a discussion about Stowe, Twain, and life on Nook Farm, then and now. Burgess will be interviewed by Jodi DeBruyne, Director of Collections at the Mark Twain House.

This event will be held both in-person in The Mark Twain House & Museum’s auditorium and live streamed using the Crowdcast online platform.

Please note that this program begins at 4:30 p.m.

Only 18 seats will be available in our auditorium. The event is free, but advance reservations are required. All in-person audience members will be required to wear a mask at all times while on site. To reserve your on-site spot, please register here.

To watch the program virtually from the comfort of your home, please register here. The program will be live streamed using the Crowdcast online platform.

Elizabeth G. Burgess is the Director of Collections & Research at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. She is responsible for all historic collections, buildings and landscape management. Burgess coordinated research, collections needs and activities associated with the Stowe House Preservation Project completed in 2017 and coordinated the environmental improvement renovation of the library/archives storage area in 2010. She serves on the South Windsor, CT Historic District Commission and Demolition Delay Committee. Burgess has a B.A. in history from UCONN.

The Trouble at Home and Trouble Begins series are made possible with the support of Connecticut Humanities. Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, supports cultural and historic organizations that tell the state’s stories, build community and enrich lives.

The Trouble Begins lecture series is presented in part with support from The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, Elmira, New York.

For more information about the program, call 860-247-0998 or visit marktwainhouse.org/.

Nook Farm map image courtesy of Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.