This event has been rescheduled to THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, because of bad weather forecast for Thursday, November 15. Dr. Catherine Burton, Program Manager for School and Writing Programs for The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, talks about “Stowe’s ‘Pets of the Parlor’: Domesticated Birds and Animal Rights in Nook Farm.” The Mark Twain House & Museum is collaborating […]
What relevance do Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and their Nook Farms neighbors have to our 21st century world? Find out on Wednesday, December 12, 3 p.m., when students and their teachers will talk about the connections they see between the writings of Nook Farm residents on issues of social justice and the issues we face […]
Elizabeth Burgess, Collections Manager at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Burgess will speak on "Letters, Drawings, and Prose: Lilly Warner at Home in Nook Farm." Lilly Gillette Warner was the daughter and niece of abolitionists, sister of famous actor William Gillette, and sister-in-law of author/editor Charles Dudley Warner. What do her personal papers, published poetry […]