The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain’s restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain’s literary legacy and provide information about his life and times.
For Business or Pleasure? Twain’s Summer Sojourns The Mark Twain House & Museum is proud to present an exhibition titled For Business or Pleasure?: Twain’s Summer Sojourns which will focus on the Clemens family’s American summer vacations while discussing the overarching themes relating to Gilded Age leisure and travel. The exhibit will roughly cover a time period […]
In June of 1889, John Muir meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson. Before long, the pair decide to venture to Yosemite Valley—the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced an awakening that would set the course of the rest of his life. Upon their arrival the men […]
Considered a Literary Hub and BookPage Most Anticipated Book of 2023, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops, Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761). In his new book Oliver Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere […]
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 […]
A family’s efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn’s diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from his grandfather’s remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: […]
An Assassin in Utopia tells the true, interlocking stories of the Oneida Community—a free-love community in upstate New York—and its radical founder, an eccentric newspaper publisher, President James Garfield, and a one-time member of the Oneida Community—Charles Julius Guiteau—who assassinated him. Set against a vivid backdrop of ambition, hucksterism, epidemics, and spectacle, the book’s interwoven stories fuse together in the climactic murder of President […]
The Clemens family spent two summers at artist colonies in the mountains – one at the Onteora Club in the Catskills, and one on the slopes of Mount Monadnock in Dublin, New Hampshire. The family’s circle of friends at both locations included well-known artists such as, Abbott Thayer, J. Carroll Beckwith, and Candace Wheeler. Join […]
The American School for the Deaf and The MTH&M join to welcome The New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace discussing After the Miracle with ASD Director of Diversity & Special Programs Shana Gibbs. This virtual discussion will be presented via Zoom with American Sign Language interpretation and closed captioning. In this first major biography of Helen Keller in decades, […]
In Must Love Trees, Tobin Mitnick invites you to share his deeply personal connection to our forest companions in ways that expand the storied genre of nature writing. Full of fact, opinion, and humor—as well as beautiful drawings—of a vast selection of North American trees, Must Love Trees is part textbook, part memoir, and part comedy: a complete—and […]
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 […]
Robert Brighton will be joined by fellow Gilded Age mystery author Dr. Cecelia Tichi to discuss his new novel—inspired by a true crime ‘murder of the century.’ A web of love, lust, and intrigue forms within the elite enclave of Ashwood in Buffalo, New York that pits husbands against wives and detective against detective. Set […]
Actor and playwright Paterson Joseph’s debut novel charts the life of Charles Ignatius Sancho through fictionalized diary entries, letters, and commentary. Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. He must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ally—a kindly duke who taught him to write—is dying. Sancho is desperate […]
Considered “a page-turner… complex heroine on a quest to discover what’s real beyond the mirage of all that glitters” by Dawnie Walton, winner of last year’s Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, Advika and the Hollywood Wives tells the story of marriage, scandal, fame, and identity as a woman grapples with her new life. After marrying […]
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 Finn? […]
