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 […]
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 […]
Although his most famous works were set along the Mississippi River of his childhood, Mark Twain composed those novels while living in Nook Farm, a neighborhood of Hartford full of celebrated literary figures. This program explores what it was like in this vibrant community of authors and activists, whose residents included not only Twain, but […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House are proud to present a virtual program about Joseph McGill’s personal account of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country—revealing the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum and Kenway’s Cause present the 7th Annual Bark Twain Bash, an evening of celebrating our four-legged friends! Proceeds to benefit Kenway’s Cause and the Mark Twain House & Museum. We will be presenting special awards to special friends of animals and even animals themselves! The event is hosted by iHeartMedia’s […]
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 […]