Join the Kenway's Cause Animal Rescue and The Mark Twain House & Museum for the 11th Annual Bark Twain Bash on Saturday, September 12 at 6pm. It's the Cat's Meow joint fundraising event will be held at the museum and this fun, festive and furry evening honors individuals and organizations working in animal rescue, K9 law […]
Join us for a fascinating conversation between Beatrice Fox Auerbach Chief Curator Daryn Reyman-Lock and Pulitzer Prize winning author Liaquat Ahamed on his new book, 1873. In the year 1873, Mark Twain is publishing his new novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, co-written with Charles Dudley Warner. He is building a new house on Farmington […]
Independent Mark Twain scholar Kevin MacDonnell will present his intriguing findings regarding the Clemens family's Hartford butler, George Griffin. This talk will preview some of the newly discovered details of Griffin’s remarkable life that have since come to light. Among these new discoveries are the identity of his second enslaver, and the shocking relationships between […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
Mark Twain's Family lived in an era when many well-to-do families adorned their homes with elements of stained glass. Some examples of early Tiffany stained glass are still on display in Mark Twain's Hartford home. In this workshop create your own beautiful stained glass to add to your home. This is a fun and creative […]
THE MARK TWAIN CONNECTION: The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. - Mark Twain in a letter to George Bainton, 15 Oct 1888 ABOUT THE TOPIC: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, just 21 years […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. We will be offering several tours (6pm, 7pm, […]