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Saturday, August 26 Beginning at 7pm - GET A CLUE: INTERACTIVE MURDER-MYSTERY TOURS OF THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE with Sea Tea Improv (In-Person)

Inspired by the iconic board game, our GET A CLUE Murder-Mystery Tours use the various rooms (secret passageway, conservatory, billiards room, and more) of the Twain house -- and some of the author's favorite literary characters -- as part of the game. Who killed that varmint Pap Finn? Was it Tom Sawyer in the Library with the Wrench? Come find out. It is different every time!

In-Person Experience! Reservations required. CLICK HERE to reserve.

FREE Fun for Connecticut Families!

After 1,006 tickets sold and 344 households served, we’d like to thank the state of Connecticut’s Summer at the Museum Initiative! Funding has been exceeded, but we are happy to announce that we will be continuing the program on a limited basis.

We are offering our 9:45am Mark Twain House tour and our 10am Growing Up in the Gilded Age interactive youth tour for FREE for the rest of the summer!

Connecticut children ages 18 and under plus one accompanying adult receive FREE admission. Connecticut families can learn more and access reservations HERE: https://marktwainhouse.org/ctsummer/

The Mark Twain House's Reading Challenge: Update!

We're approaching the first benchmark of The Mark Twain House's Reading Challenge! We've almost achieved our first goal - The Adventures of Tome Sawyer: 300 Books Read. Our total goal is 1,874 books read; 1874 being the year the Clemens Family moved into their Hartford home.

We're challenging everyone this year to get hooked on good books. The Mark Twain House's Reading Challenge is open to readers of ALL ages, languages, and backgrounds. The books don't need to be by or about Mark Twain, but we certainly encouraging showing Samuel Clemens some love.

Now through December 31st, 2023, participants are encouraged to participate and share their reads with us through our form below, our Facebook group, our StoryGraph Challenge, and our GoodReads Group. Visitors to the Museum are also to encouraged to interact with our post-it wall and share with us: their favorite book, a book recommendation, and/or their own personal reading goals.

In January 2024 we will randomly select 3 adult and 3 youth participants for a variety of reading-themed prizes. Learn more and get started by CLICKING HERE.

Because Friends Like You Believe in the Future of Greater Hartford

Endow Hartford 21 is a matching gift endowment program, initiated by the Zachs family and supported by other lead donors who believe in the nonprofit community across Greater Hartford. The 1:2 match seeks to inspire donors to give generously to support the long-term future of the organizations they love.

You can help secure the future of The Mark Twain House & Museum by making a donation to Endow Hartford 21. Any gift is welcome, but if your gift is between $250 and $10,000, it will be matched 50%! 

Step Up Now, Help Twain’s Legacy for Years to Come

The match is available until August 31, 2023 – but your impact will last forever.

For more information, visit our website by clicking HERE and scroll down to the Endow Hartford 21 section.

Upcoming Events
V = Virtual Event; IP = In-Person Event

Thursday, August 10 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: A Model Case of Oh Hell Yes! The Clemens' Summer at Onteora in 1890 (IP & V)

Saturday, August 20 - The Red Disk: A First Look at a New "Operical" Based on Mark Twain's Death Disk (IP)

Wednesday, August 23 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: All Things Twain in Elmira with Joe Lemak and Matt Seybold (IP & V)

Thursday, August 24 - The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race with Farah Karim-Cooper from Shakespeare's Globe (V)

Thursday, August 24 - August Wilson: A Life with Patti Hartigan (V)

Saturday, August 26 - Get a CLUE Tours of The Mark Twain House (IP)

Tuesday, August 29 - Dead Mountain: A Novel with Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (V)

Wednesday, September 6 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: The House that Trudeau Built: The Development of the “Fresh Air” Treatment for Tuberculosis (IP & V)

Thursday, September 7 - Hangman - A Novel with Maya Binyam (V)

Friday, September 15 - The Gilded Age Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from America's Golden Era with Becky Libourel Diamond (V)

Tuesday, September 19 - Those We Thought We Knew - A Novel with David Joy (V)

Wednesday, September 20 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: Digging Up the Past - Then & Now of the Historical Hotel Ampersand (IP & V)

September 23 - The Bark Twain Bash...It's the Cat's Meow fundraiser with Kenway's Cause (IP)

September 26 - The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power and Deception on the Eve of World War I with Douglas Brunt (V)

September 29 - Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours being for October (IP)

October 11 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: The Phenomenon of Summer Reading with Donna Harrington-Lueker (IP & V)

More to be announced soon!

To see all event information and registration, CLICK HERE.

To preorder books for our upcoming events, CLICK HERE. Signed books will be mailed after the event. Please note that we cannot ship outside of the U.S. at this time.

Your donation to The Mark Twain House & Museum helps us meet our mission to preserve the home and legacy of Mark Twain. Thank you for your generosity!

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