Every friendship has its shadow...Told in alternating perspectives in Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, Bye, Baby confronts the myriad ways friendships change and evolve over time, the lingering echoes of childhood trauma, and the impact of women’s choices on their lifelong relationships. In-Person Event: $10 for non-members, free for MTH&M Members (please login to access your […]
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Twain's Gilded Age, […]
Investigate the ghosts of the Mark Twain House with Adam Berry from Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters on the Travel Channel. VIP Experience! This ticket includes the meet & greet from 5 pm - 6:30 pm, and a paranormal investigation of The Mark Twain House! Learn more & REGISTER HERE.
*Please note: this specialty tour visits the 1st floor of The Mark Twain House only!* Help us wish Susy a happy 152nd birthday! Spend the afternoon with Mark Twain's eldest daughter Susy, and learn how her family celebrated birthdays in "The Gilded Age!" A costumed actor will lead you on a tour of the 1st […]
With “Spirited Women”, The Mark Twain House & Museum sets out to explore trailblazing and adventurous women—as chronicled in two new novels—who claim their power by any means necessary. Queens of London is a tale of the dark glamour and sisterhood of Britain's first female crime syndicate, and how they managed the ever-shifting meaning of […]
Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she […]
In The Room is a new, in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy. This first event of the series kicks off with Senator Chris Murphy. REGISTER HERE. Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Registration: 6:15 – 6:50 […]
In prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Jamie Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else? In a journey […]
We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. The Rise […]
Arming the World tells the story of how the small arms industry began in the United States. Almost from the beginning, our country produced arms in new, and radically different, ways— with the federal government purchasing these arms at a staggering rate during and after the Civil War. Soon, salesmen from companies like Colt, based […]
Who killed that varmint Pap Finn? Was it Tom Sawyer in the Library with the Wrench? The Prince (or was it the Pauper) in the Bedroom? We need YOU to solve this mystery! Inspired by the classic murder-mystery board game, the GET A CLUE Tours use the various rooms of the Twain House (secret passageway, […]
Monday, April 15, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm ET - WRITE IN MARK TWAIN’S LIBRARY! Limited Spots! Admission: $60; Grab your seat HERE. Not a writing class, not a writing workshop, just three hours of uninterrupted writing time in Mark Twain’s own library. Join a handful of fellow scribblers to write, reflect, and plot […]