MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures

The Mark Twain House & Museum is the 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.

Connecticut's Cultural Treasures is a new series of 50 five-minute vignettes that profiles a variety of the state's most notable cultural resources.

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[davidhuber]

I visited the Twain House some years ago - a terrific experience. I find his interest in German interesting (studying it in Heidelberg, for example) - also his humorous comments about it.

[lusciouskollektibles]

Not only a genius but a man with such a fine mind Sam is ...

[heru-deshet]

God willing, I want to see this wonderful place.

[Tsnore]

It is a fine house, although musty smelling in summer. Twain built it on his wife's money, betting his books would sell well. The tour is excellent. Amy Goodman, Ralph Nader, and Noam Chomsky spoke there in 2014. The Hartford that now surrounds the "farm" is unfortunately rather hideous these days with homeless beggars about and the fear of crime in the air.

[LostinMIA]

Every square inch of the home is used. Artfully chaotic.

[stereolababy]

this house was "upper middle class?"

[djttimeebp]

Went from a beautiful city to a dump mark would of been disappointed