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Mark Twain House & Museum executive director Pieter Roos announces retirement
Hartford Courant via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoPieter Roos is retiring after 6 1/2 years as executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, the institution announced Friday. His final day is Dec. 31. Michael L. Campbell, ...
Mark Twain House in Hartford vandalized three times with thrown rocks, bricks, asphalt
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford has been vandalized three times since Dec. 23, with windows broken by bricks, rocks and chunks of asphalt, the executive director of the historic house ...
Remembering Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter born at Quarry Farm in Elmira
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt was a cheerful morning in December of 1908, in Danbury, Connecticut. Clara Clemens, the daughter...
Sea Tea Improv gets ‘R Rated’ with some of Mark Twain’s raciest writings
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSparks flew as Sea Tea Improv presented “R Rated Twain,” a selection of racy and salacious writings by Mark Twain at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford on Thursday night. The local improv ...
Fact Check: Mark Twain Once Said 'No Amount of Evidence Will Ever Persuade an Idiot'?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 months agoKostich/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images Claim: Author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "No amount of...
The story of the Clemens Center organ started more than 100 years ago
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPrior to the recent Common Time concert at the Clemens Center, patrons were treated to a performance...
Fact Check: Unraveling the Connection Between Halley's Comet and Mark Twain's Birth and Death
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSnopes compilation/Public Domain Claim: American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days...
Travel in the early footsteps of Mark Twain in Virginia City, Nevada
Victorville Daily Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1841, Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune. The publisher was a man of strong will and...
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin presents her ‘Unfinished Love Story’ at Mark Twain House & Museum
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPulitzer Prize-winning historian and media personality Doris Kearns Goodwin will be discussing her recently released memoir with Gov. Ned Lamont at a sold-out event on May 29 at 7 p.m. at the ...
After cross-country move, CT apartment stank, leaked, had sinking floors: renter. What the city did.
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn July, Billie Bakhshi and her family drove dawn to dusk for five days from Nevada to her new home...