A Lunchtime Conversation with Yevgenia Ostashevsky on WAR DIARY with Eugene Ostashevsky (Virtual)
Thursday, March 16 at 12pm

In War Diary, Ukrainian artist, writer, and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets sets her loving, attentive gaze against combat rhetoric and philanthropy against polarization. She talks about her parents, about the air-raid shelters, about the images in the media and in the streets. There are frightening images, but also familiar ones: because everyday life can also be found in the most horrifying: “It was a spring day, the sunspots played on the walls of the houses and on the white walls of St. Sophia Cathedral.” 

Virtual: $5 non-members and members. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

MARK Your Calendar

You’re Invited…

The Mark Twain House & Museum invites you to the Grand Opening Reception for our brand new exhibition…

‘For Business or Pleasure? Twain’s Summer Sojourns’
Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Mark Twain House and Museum

PAINT & SIP NIGHT with Artist Julie Phillipps (In-Person)
Thursday, April 13 at 6pm ET

The Clemens family spent two summers at artist colonies in the mountains – one at the Onteora Club in the Catskills, and one on the slopes of Mount Monadnock in Dublin, New Hampshire. The family’s circle of friends at both locations included well-known artists such as, Abbott Thayer, J. Carroll Beckwith, and Candace Wheeler.

Join the Mark Twain House and Julie Phillipps for an evening of art and cocktails. Tickets include supplies and instruction to paint a watercolor raven and two cocktail-tasting drink tickets. Additional cocktails can be purchased from the bar.

The cocktails served this evening will be a part of our “Hartford on the Rocks” mixology competition; winners to be announced at our October 19th Literary Cocktail Night.

This is one of many For Business or Pleasure events happening this year. Keep an eye on our website for more information.

In-Person Event! $50 / $45 for MTH&M Members.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Special Member's Sale

The Mark Twain Store is having a March Madness sale with museum members receiving 25% off all purchases except books and sale items. We have a wide array of items ranging from custom items, houseware, apparel, jewelry, gifts, and, of course, special items for the Twainiac in your life. Visit our online store and enter your membership information to receive the discount.

Not a member? CLICK HERE to join and receive wonderful benefits including free house tours and access to wonderful members-only opportunities.

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Coming Next

“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.” -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

Author Sabrina Orah Mark on HAPPILY: A Personal History With Fairy Tales with Charter Oak Cultural Center Executive Director Rabbi Donna Berman, PhD (Virtual)
Tuesday, March 21 at 7pm ET

Based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily,” Sabrina Orah Mark will discuss her new memoir-in-essays which reimagines the modern fairy tale, turning it inside out and searching it for the wisdom to better understand our contemporary moment. She grapples with a loss of innocence of her son in “Sorry, Peter Pan, We’re Over You;” an unlikely communion with wicked wives and the roots of their bad reputation in “The Evil Stepmother;” and the hunt for a wigmaker in a time of unprecedented civil unrest in “Rapunzel, Draft One Thousand.” Set against the backdrop of our current age of upheaval, Mark locates the magic in the mundane and illuminates the surreality of life as we know it today. 

Virtual: $5 non-members and members. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

Sam's Shorts

Mark Twain, 1867: "I think I could write a pretty strong argument in favor of female suffrage, but I do not want to do it. I never want to see women voting, and gabbling about politics, and electioneering. There is something revolting in the thought."

Click through to read more and share your thoughts. https://marktwainhouse.org/sams-shorts/#short

Come Visit!

Plan your visit to America's Best House Museum (Forbes Magazine, 2021) by CLICKING HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: The museum will be closed on Tuesdays through March. We will be open all other days from 9:30am to 4:30pm, with the final tour of the day stepping off at 3:15pm.

Upcoming Events

V = Virtual Event; IP = In-Person Event

March 16 - War Diary with Yevgenia Belorusets (V)

March 21 - MTH&M and Charter Oak Cultural Center present Happily: A Personal History -- With Fairy Tales with Sabrina Orah Mark (V)

March 28 - Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite with Dean King (V)

March 30 - Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller with Oliver Darkshire (V)

March 31 - Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours of The Mark Twain House (IP)

April 4 - Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure with Robert Lopez (IP & V)

April 13 - MTH&M and the American School for the Deaf present After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller with Max Wallace (V)

April 16 - Paint & Sip Night with Artist Julie Phillipps (IP)

April 18 - Must Love Trees: An Unconventional Guide with Tobin Mitnick (V)

April 21 - The Bark Twain Bash...It's the Cat's Meow fundraiser with Kenway's Cause (IP)

April 25 at 12pm - The Unsealing: Gilded Age Love, Lust and Murder with Robert Brighton (V)

April 25 at 7pm - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho with Paterson Joseph (V)

April 27 at 7pm - Advika and the Hollywood Wives with Kirthana Ramisetti (V)

April 29 starting at 7pm - Get a Clue Murder Mystery Tours with Sea Tea Improv (IP) 

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.

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