Join us on Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 at 7:00pm as The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Dr. Kerry Driscoll back to the Trouble Begins stage for her lecture A Delicate Balance: Work and Play in Mark Twain’s Creative Process. Although Mark Twain published over twenty books during his lifetime—in addition to countless short […]
Prolific playwright Kyle Bass comes to The Mark Twain House & Museum to discuss the upcoming HartBeat Ensemble production of his play, Possessing Harriet. His new play tells the true story of Harriet Powell, a young mixed-race, enslaved woman who escapes her owners at a hotel in Syracuse, New York. Formerly enslaved Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Leonard brings her […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. How did the Palm Beach hamlet so lacquered in grace and elegance come to find itself rooted in scandal? How did Palm Beach’s most famous manse become the chew toy for tabloid headline writers? Now, we have […]
Join us on Wednesday, October 11th as The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Donna Harrington-Lueker to the Trouble Begins stage to talk about her book: Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading From Newport to Bar Harbor and Long Branch to Chautauqua, 19th-century summer vacationers did more than promenade on […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. Now in The Hidden Language of Cats Dr. Sarah Brown, a […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]
Program takes place on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available at any time after the program. Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran— a financial pioneer and philanthropist— shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex and […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Robert Engel to the Trouble Begins stage for his lecture: Lurking, There, in the Underbrush: The Gilded Age in the Adirondacks. In Gilded Age America, more than now, new cultural trends were lifted to prominence by America’s wealthiest families. The descending strata of society would soon emulate those […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS RETURN – Nocturnal Paranormal Tours of The Mark Twain House Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy's "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Hunters Academy," and Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled […]