Howard Fishman, author of To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse, joins New Yorker Staff Writer Sarah Larson LIVE onstage to discuss the overlooked history of a musical pioneer. Connie Converse was a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition. Fishman […]
Wednesday, June 7 at 12 PM (Noon) ET - Without Money or Moneyed Friends: Mark Twain, Charles Ethan Porter, and Art Patronage in the Gilded Age $6.50 per virtual connection, free for museum members; REGISTER HERE. This program will explore the relationship between Mark Twain and Charles Ethan Porter, a prominent Black painter in […]
From the bestselling author of All You Can Ever Know comes a memoir of a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost. Called an “an intimate story with vast social implications” by Imani Perry and “an excavation of the self” […]
LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED 🥳 Saturday, June 10 from 11 am to 3 pm: Join your Nook Farm Neighbors — The Mark Twain House & Museum, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, and the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association for ice cream, family fun, and live music! FREE! NO RSVP REQUIRED! Just pull up with […]
A hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam. Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out […]
When Sam Clemens first visited Hartford in 1868, he deemed it “the best built and the handsomest town I have ever seen.” But Hartford was more than just a pretty place–it was one of the richest cities in the United States at the time. “Hartford dollars have a place in half the great moneyed enterprises […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Will Mackintosh to the Trouble Begins stage for his lecture: Imagining Indian Maidens in Pure Springs: Race and Nation in Nineteenth Century Spa Towns. Mark Twain’s enduring popularity as a writer lies at least partly in his ability to confront the stories Americans tell themselves about themselves as […]
Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, in Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are […]
In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments - some her own, others donated by family and friends - she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years […]
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, The Summer of 1876 weaves together the timelines of major events and legends of that pivotal year. It demonstrates the overlapping context of their stories and illustrates the historical importance […]
Sea Tea Improv returns! GET A CLUE Tours will be offered on special nights at The Mark Twain House & Museum, using the various rooms (secret passageway, conservatory, billiards room, and more) of the Twain house -- and some of the author's favorite literary characters -- as part of the game. Who killed that varmint Pap […]
Join us on Sunday, June 25th from Noon-4:00PM for Connecticut’s Historic Gardens Day at the Mark Twain House & Museum. Our team of Master Gardeners and Garden Volunteers will be on-site to answer questions about the plants in and history of our historic gardens. Access to the Museum Center and gardens will be FREE from […]