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1. • Mark Twain House & Museum executive director Pieter Roos announces retirement

     Hartford Courant via Yahoo Finance· 5 months ago

     Pieter 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, ...

2. • Taking on contentious issue of abortion rights, ‘Mercy Street’ honored as 2023 American Voices in...

     Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Jennifer Haigh has visited The Mark Twain House and Museum before for a reading and signing event. She returns this week as the winner of the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award ...

3. • 'Get a Clue' at the Twain House

     Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn. via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Aug. 25—HARTFORD — For about six years, guests have engaged in stories of murder and mystery at the Mark Twain House discovering who killed Pap Finn during an evening of improvisational theater ...

4. • Sea Tea Improv gets ‘R Rated’ with some of Mark Twain’s raciest writings

     Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Sparks 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 ...

5. • WestHartford'sNoah Webster House names new executive director

     Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn. via Yahoo Finance· 10 months ago

     Jul. 21—"I'm proud of all the places I've been associated with," said Mainville, who lives in Manchester. "I really caught the bug when I started working at the Mark Twain House. Very early ...

6. • Mark Twain House in Hartford vandalized three times with thrown rocks, bricks, asphalt

     Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     The 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 ...

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     Fact Check: Mark Twain Once Said 'No Amount of Evidence Will Ever Persuade an Idiot'?

     Snopes via Yahoo News· 6 months ago

     Kostich/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images Claim: Author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "No amount of...

8. • Bestselling novelist Fiona Davis talks about her housefuls of characters and latest novel ‘The...

     Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     “The only way I can do a novel is taking it chunk by chunk,” says Fiona Davis. In her case, it’s more like brick by brick. The bestselling novelist builds her stories by first finding a historic ...

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     Fact Check: Unraveling the Connection Between Halley's Comet and Mark Twain's Birth and Death

     Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 months ago

     Snopes compilation/Public Domain Claim: American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days...

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      Young CT writers getting summer crash course in writing, publishing

      Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

      The successes of Rockville High School’s creative writing classes have become well-known when it...