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Inside the Mark Twain House and Museum (marktwainhouse.org)
For most people, the name Mark Twain is synonymous with the American frontier. Of course, there is good reason for the association: Twain s boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri played an outsized role in his future writing style, and the United States push west ahead of the country s centennial formed the backdrop to his most famous works.
Less well known is the relationship Samuel Clemens (Twain s real name) relationship with Hartford. In fact, America s most famous riverboat pilot and first prominent author lived longer in Connecticut than any other place he ever called home, and far longer on the east coast than in Hannibal. It was here that he and Olivia (Livy) Langdon raised their family, had four children, lost two (one, a son, to diphtheria at the age of two, and a daughter, Suzy, to meningitis at the age of 24) and where Mark Twain wrote some of his most famous, and enduring works: The Adventures of Tom Sawye
Online arts galas take many forms: a multi-star concert at the Goodspeed, an array of bestselling writers at the Mark Twain House, a Steve Turre sextet for the Hartford Jazz Society and stars whose live stops in New Haven got postponed.
An urgent priority : Library s $1.5 million project starts to replace 125-year-old roof in Fairfield
Josh LaBella
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The Pequot Library as it undergoes a roof replacement./ The Pequot Library / ContributedShow MoreShow Less
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The Pequot Library was opened to the public in March of 1894./ The Pequot Library / ContributedShow MoreShow Less
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FAIRFIELD Work has begun to replace Pequot Library’s 125-year-old Ludowici terracotta roof.
“This restoration project is long overdue, and the trustees enthusiastically endorsed proceeding with this critical effort despite the current pandemic,” Nelson North, Pequot Library’s Board of Trustees president, said in a news release.
The project comes after a comprehensive conditions assessment plan, which was supported by the State Historic Preservation Office and conducted by architecture firm Pirie Associates, of New Haven, in 2019. The study identified repairing the historic roof as “an urgent prior
Brookfield Library Presents Mark Twain in the Margins on January 6 Written by Brookfield Library
Mark Twain in the Margins Wednesday, January 6 at 6:30 pm on Zoom
Join Mallory Howard, Assistant Curator at the Mark Twain House and Museum, for “Mark Twain in the Margins” via Zoom. Mark Twain had a lifelong habit of writing in the margins of the books he read and it did not always matter whether the book actually belonged to him. He commented acerbically on the authors and their work, and made comments that tell us about the man and his thoughts. His marginalia are his “conversations” with the books he was reading, and there are many examples of this in the library collection of the Mark Twain House & Museum.