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Writing in Mark Twain’s Library – 2018
Not a writing class, not a writing workshop, just three hours of uninterrupted writing time in Mark Twain’s own library. Join a select handful of fellow scribblers to write, reflect, and plot whatever piece of literature you’re working on. The space is quiet, except for the burbling fountain in the nearby conservatory, and infused with Mark Twain’s spirit. Don’t miss this very special opportunity. Laptops are welcome, but there is NO WI-FI; make sure you charge up before you come, as…
Find out more »Tapping Into Twain 2018
We’re tapping into the second decade of brew fests at The Mark Twain House & Museum! Our signature fundraiser, Tapping Into Twain, returns to the museum for its 11th year on Friday, September 28, 2018, at 5 p.m. Beer, food, music, and a party fit for the original American humorist will greet you at the door. Classic brews from Charter Oak Brewing Co., Stony Creek Brewery, Alvarium Beer Co., Back East Brewery, Willimantic Brewing Co., Firefly Hollow Brewing, Broad Brook…
Find out more »Mark My Words: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart, author of the New York Times bestseller Absurdistan, will give the keynote presentation Saturday, September 29, during the 2018 Writers Weekend at The Mark Twain House & Museum. He'll be joined in conversation by writer and “Literary Disco” podcast co-host Julia Pistell. Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels Super Sad True Love Story (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for…
Find out more »The Trouble Begins: Kaitlyn Oberndorfer – “How Nook Farm Came To Be”
Join the Mark Twain House and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for this fall's The Trouble Begins lecture series. October 4: Kaitlyn Oberndorfer, Education and Exhibitions Coordinator at the Wethersfield Historical Society, will speak on "Twain's Nook Farm: How the Mark Twain House & Museum Came to Be." From its mid-19th century purchase by brother in laws John Hooker and Francis Gillette, Nook Farm grew to be a touchstone community of the greater Hartford area comprised of social activists, intellectuals,…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Storytelling Workshop with Terry Wolfisch Cole
Ira Glass of This American Life says, “Great stories happen to people who know how to tell them.” Whether you want to tell your story on stage, in a business meeting, or with your grandchildren on your lap, storyteller Terry Wolfisch Cole will teach you skills to captivate listeners and engage any audience. Terry Wolfisch Cole is the founder of Tell Me Another, a Hartford-based storytelling show. She regularly performs and teaches the art and craft of storytelling in the area. Tickets…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Mark My Words: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Jarrett Krosoczka will present Hey, Kiddo, his critically acclaimed young adult memoir. The new book is a departure from Krosoczka's popular Lunch Lady graphic novel series and the Platypus Police Squad chapter book series. Hey, Kiddo is a personal story presented as a graphic memoir. Krosoczka wrote and illustrated the new book. Krosoczka, who grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, depended on his grandparents as his mother battled a heroin addiction. He did not know his father. His mother died in 2017, as Krosoczka was writing his memoir. Hey, Kiddo is included in…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Restaurant Confidential: Tyler Anderson, Carole Peck & Steve Abrams Share Secrets With Frank Rizzo
Ever think of starting a restaurant, or curious about what it’s like to run one, or wonder why your favorite eatery is no longer there? These veterans of the food business will tell all. Freelance writer Frank Rizzo will lead a conversation with three of Connecticut’s leading restaurateurs about the inspirations, challenges, sorrows, and joys of creating — and sustaining — high-profile, fine-dining establishments. Tyler Anderson is chef and owner of Simsbury’s Millwright and co-owner of West Hartford’s The Cook and the…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Capital Classics Presents: Frankenstein – A Radio Drama
Capital Classics brings radio-theater performances of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford this Halloween week. Just like the days of the golden age of radio, Company members use live sound effects, music and their storytelling vocal skills to tell an adaption of Mary Shelley's 200-year-old novel. Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as this anguished monster. Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young…
Find out more »Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are Back! Tours run at 6 PM, 7 PM, 8 PM, and 9 PM. Filled with haunted history, dark tales, and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these nighttime tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing. Participants will hear lots of creepy tales — and learn about Mark Twain's interest in the supernatural. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story. The tours are sponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions. Tickets…
Find out more »Capital Classics Presents: Frankenstein – A Radio Drama
Capital Classics brings radio-theater performances of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford this Halloween week. Just like the days of the golden age of radio, Company members use live sound effects, music and their storytelling vocal skills to tell an adaption of Mary Shelley's 200-year-old novel. Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as this anguished monster. Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young…
Find out more »Capital Classics Presents: Frankenstein – A Radio Drama
Capital Classics brings radio-theater performances of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford this Halloween week. Just like the days of the golden age of radio, Company members use live sound effects, music and their storytelling vocal skills to tell an adaption of Mary Shelley's 200-year-old novel. Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as this anguished monster. Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young…
Find out more »Writing in Mark Twain’s Library – 2018
Not a writing class, not a writing workshop, just three hours of uninterrupted writing time in Mark Twain’s own library. Join a select handful of fellow scribblers to write, reflect, and plot whatever piece of literature you’re working on. The space is quiet, except for the burbling fountain in the nearby conservatory, and infused with Mark Twain’s spirit. Don’t miss this very special opportunity. Laptops are welcome, but there is NO WI-FI; make sure you charge up before you come, as…
Find out more »The Mouth-Off: “Love at First Bite” with Chion Wolf
Humans have a lot in common - DNA, respiration, and eating food! Come tell and hear stories on the theme, “Love at First Bite - stories about food”, at The Mouth-Off at the Mark Twain House & Museum hosted by Chion Wolf on Friday, November 9th at 7:30pm! Do you have a story about food you'd like to tell? Email mouthoffhartford@gmail.com with your name, and a short description of what your story is about. No need to write every detail,…
Find out more »Writing in Mark Twain’s Library – 2018
Not a writing class, not a writing workshop, just three hours of uninterrupted writing time in Mark Twain’s own library. Join a select handful of fellow scribblers to write, reflect, and plot whatever piece of literature you’re working on. The space is quiet, except for the burbling fountain in the nearby conservatory, and infused with Mark Twain’s spirit. Don’t miss this very special opportunity. Laptops are welcome, but there is NO WI-FI; make sure you charge up before you come, as…
Find out more »Get A Clue Murder Mystery House Tours
Tours leave every 15 minutes from 7 to 7:45 p.m. Get A Clue Murder Mystery Tours take participants through 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 Finn? Was it Tom Sawyer in the Library with the Wrench? Merlin in the Billiard Room with the Knife? The Pauper in the Kitchen with the Rope? Play our…
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