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.
November 1 • 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm One of the nation’s leading literary prizes, The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award honors an exemplary work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an “American Voice” about American experiences, much like Twain’s masterwork, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Join us on Friday, November 1, for our celebration […]
October 26 • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Get ready to unleash your creativity at our Spooky Pressed Flower Bat Workshop! Have a spooktacular time filled with crafting, laughter, and Halloween spirit as you create your very own bat masterpiece from vibrant pressed flowers. Each bat will be a one-of-a-kind work of art, perfectly showcased in a stunning […]
October 25 • 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Experience the thrill of crafting your own ghost story under the guidance of master teaching artist Victoria Nordlund. Welcoming writers of all levels, this workshop will explore atmosphere, characterization, and pacing— tools that will help you write a truly spine chilling tale. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the […]
October 24 • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm With compelling artwork and riveting storytelling, this radical retelling of the American classic intertwines into the story of Jim and Huck are the stories of Jim’s descendants in the 1930s, 1980s, and 2020s, making this a multigenerational family epic as well as an adventure story. Big Jim and the […]
October 18 • 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm “The last fad is ‘ghost-autographs.’ You write your name down the crease, then fold & press the paper while the ink is still wet & will blot. It generally makes something resembling a skeleton.” -Sam Clemens to Clara Clemens, 1905 With his 1905 book The Ghosts of My Friends, author Cecil Henland started […]
October 17 • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Dear Wallace addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility. Exploring relationships between modernism, motherhood, poetry, and privilege, the speaker of these poems puts her daily routines in dialogue with his. […]
October 16 • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dr. Paul Koudounaris spent over a decade traveling the world to study pet cemeteries, animal memorials, and various traditions for saying final goodbyes to cherished pets. In his research he discovered far more than the burials of cats and dogs. What he discovered were graves for everything from flies […]
October 11 • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In this spellbinding and entertaining memoir Regina and Ryan Cohn, trendsetters and tastemakers, have reinvented what the artifact collectors market looks like. Together, they are the founders of Oddities Flea Market, artfully curating a selection of the best artists and collectors at several events across the U.S. throughout the […]
October 11 • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In this spellbinding and entertaining memoir Regina and Ryan Cohn, trendsetters and tastemakers, have reinvented what the artifact collectors market looks like. Together, they are the founders of Oddities Flea Market, artfully curating a selection of the best artists and collectors at several events across the U.S. throughout the […]
Experience the eerie allure of the Clemens Family home after dark with our Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours. Join us for a spine-tingling journey where you’ll hear tales of paranormal investigations, unexplained phenomena witnessed by both staff and guests, and insights into Mark Twain’s own fascination with the otherworldly. Learn about chilling chapters in the Clemens […]
Experience the eerie allure of the Clemens Family home after dark with our Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours. Join us for a spine-tingling journey where you’ll hear tales of paranormal investigations, unexplained phenomena witnessed by both staff and guests, and insights into Mark Twain’s own fascination with the otherworldly. Learn about chilling chapters in the Clemens […]
Experience the eerie allure of the Clemens Family home after dark with our Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours. Join us for a spine-tingling journey where you’ll hear tales of paranormal investigations, unexplained phenomena witnessed by both staff and guests, and insights into Mark Twain’s own fascination with the otherworldly. Learn about chilling chapters in the Clemens […]
This new book is a compilation of the beautiful and powerful stories of the challenges, glories, triumphs, defeats, resiliency, growth, and discovery these influential Latina nurses share about their inspiring journeys. Join us for a conversation about Latinas in the nursing profession and what they deserve: support and resources for growth; opportunities to continue to […]
On September 14, the Mark Twain House will be celebrating its 150th birthday, and we look forward to welcoming visitors from near and far to help us mark this momentous occasion. From 10am – 5pm, we will be hosting a fun-filled day of activities to commemorate this historic home where Samuel and Olivia Clemens raised […]
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, […]
This book by John Vasquez Mejias showcases an important and often overlooked moment in American history. Told as a fable, in which the leaders of the Puerto Rican independence movement are visited by the ghosts of Michael Collins and Gandhi, The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the 1950 insurrection on the island that […]
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 […]
Description of Event: For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best of their time. Despite the importance of Stevenson’s nonfiction, his personal essays—seventy in total—have never […]
Although most credit Wilbur and Orville Wright with America’s first powered flight, two months before the brothers lifted off the sands of Kitty Hawk, a French immigrant named August Greth flew an airship of his own design across the skies of San Francisco. L.A. Birdmen is the fascinating and forgotten story of America’s first […]
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes Jason Silverman to the Trouble Begins stage for his lecture: The Twain of Our Republic and the Lincoln of Our Literature: The Historical Connections Between Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain The lecture begins at 7 PM. This event will be held on Zoom Webinar. A recording will be available […]
