For those who can't join us in person tonight, we've added a livestream option! We just added a live-stream option. Hope you can tune in tonight: marktwainhouse.vbotickets.com/event/Troubl...

Mark Twain House & Museum - The Trouble Begins: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tales from the Mark Twain Papers and Project (LIVE STREAM)

These tickets are for the live stream of this event. Click here for in person tickets. Join MTP (Mark Twain Papers & Project) editor Kerry Driscoll for a lively, wide-ranging interview with D...

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Join us for a very special free event on August 4, 7:00pm. Register today! eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

This is a limited run so get your tickets today! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn puppet show through July 20. eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

Join us tomorrow evening when we welcome Daniel Mason back to the Mark Twain House for a discussion of his new novel, Country People. Get your book bundle/ticket here: eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

It’s been kind’ve a long time since we made an episode with Twain squarely at the center. Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social, @ceaubin.com, @marktwainhouse.bsky.social, & @thisguysucked.com we gave our “patron saint of haters” his tithing.

This Guy Sucked (Vandal Live @ Mark Twain House & Museum)

with Claire Aubin & Erin Bartram

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I'm really excited that we'll be welcoming @unlawfulentries.bsky.social to @marktwainhouse.bsky.social on June 25 for a conversation about her new book! Join us in person or on the live stream! marktwainhouse.org/event/migrat...

Join us Sunday, June 7, at 3:00 for Bridging the Gaps: An Afternoon of Poetry at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Hosted by Victoria Nordlund and Karen Warinsky, this special reading traces the moments that shape a life, from childhood and caregiving to joy, upheaval, memory, and connection.

Mark Twain may be one of America’s greatest writers. He was also, at times, a world-class hater.

Connecticut students ages 14 to 18: spend your summer writing at The Mark Twain House & Museum! ✒️ The 2026 Nook Farm Writers Collaborative is a six-week paid creative writing apprenticeship running June 24 to July 30.

If you like your history intelligent, irreverent, and a little dangerous, this one’s for you. Join us at The Mark Twain House & Museum for He Despised Himself: An Evening with This Guy Sucked and The American Vandal - @mattseybold.bsky.social, @thisguysucked.com, @erinbartram.bsky.social

For $10 ($7 with a membership!) you can find out whether I think Mark Twain sucked. At the @marktwainhouse.bsky.social. No spoilers. Seriously, The American Vandal’s first ever crossover pod with @thisguysucked.com, hosted by @ceaubin.com, joined by @erinbartram.bsky.social This will be fun.

Some of you may remember a day last year when @ceaubin.com and I found each other at the museum. I'm so excited to reveal what came from that meeting! Join us and @mattseybold.bsky.social at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social in May for a live dual podcast recording. marktwainhouse.org/event/he-des...

"It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals." - "The Lowest Animal" #MarkTwain

From the collection: a first edition of #HuckleberryFinn and a salesman’s prospectus. Mallory, our Assistant Curator, is sharing two pieces of the story: The prospectus is basically the 1885 pitch deck: sample pages, illustrations, and the selling spiel.

Happy birthday, Huck! First released in the U.S. on Feb. 18, 1885. Still causing a commotion, which is the highest compliment. That’s 141 years of troublemaking, river-current momentum, and American storytelling. Come see where Twain did part of the writing: right here in Hartford. #HuckleberryFinn

Need a Valentine? SWM, 190 years old, 5'9"ish, medium build, not particularly athletic. Love to travel, read, eat, and swap stories. I’m a smoker, but you need not be. Enjoy a glass of warm scotch, billiards, and I come with a 25-room mansion in Hartford. 💝

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re saying thank you. Because of you, we completed the George Griffin Headstone Fund and will place a permanent monument at George Griffin’s New York City gravesite.

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" #MarkTwain

Outside: nature’s ice sculpture exhibit. 🧊 Inside: warm rooms, good stories, and zero icicles. Come visit. marktwainhouse.org/visit/ #MarkTwainHouse #MarkTwain #Hartford #Museum #Connecticut

The Mark Twain House & Museum is honored to welcome @ibramxk.bsky.social, National Book Award–winning historian and author of How to Be an Antiracist, for a special evening on his new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar #MarkTwain

"That desire which is in us all to better other people's condition by having them think as we think." - What is Man #MarkTwain

New Sam’s Shorts is live, and it is a spicy one. 🦅 This month’s excerpt is “The American Gentleman” (1906), where Mark Twain weighs in on Theodore Roosevelt and what “American manners” look like when power is involved. Tell us what you think: marktwainhouse.org/sams-shorts/ #SamsShorts

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself..."

"It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage...

Mark Twain House & Museum—Twain’s Midwestern books, written in his beautiful and eccentric Hartford home. #LiteraryLandscapes by @jerklamerk.bsky.social. #MarkTwain #Hartford #Connecticut @marktwainhouse.bsky.social newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...

Mark Twain – Hartford, Connecticut - The New Territory Magazine

Twain’s Midwestern books, written in his beautiful and eccentric Hartford home. Literary Landscapes by Jacques Lamarre.

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The house is dressed for the season, and the details are worth slowing down for. 🎅 Step inside #MarkTwain’s Hartford home and let the holidays do what they do best: make history feel close. Plan your visit and join us for a tour. www.marktwainhouse.org

We have two author conversations lined up for January 2026 at The Mark Twain House, one virtual and one in person. Register: www.marktwainhouse.org/event/in-the... #AuthorEvents #BookTalk #MarkTwainHouse #Hartford #Connecticut #NewEngland #LiteraryEvents

"As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day." - Speech, 8 March 1902 #MarkTwain #MarkTwainQuotes

Step into Mark Twain’s Gilded Age home and spend an afternoon writing by the glow of a Victorian Christmas. 🎄✍️ On Sunday, December 14, 2025, poet and master teaching artist Victoria Nordlund will lead a cozy, generative Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop in the Twain Library, decorated for the season.