Welcome to The Mark Twain House & Museum, where the great American author lived and worked from 1874 to 1891. Purchase your tickets in advance ⬇️ marktwainhouse.org Hartford, CThttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mlqzg5r3yc25Join 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.13 May 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqzg5r3yc25https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mk6okiw7hk25Mark Twain may be one of America’s greatest writers. He was also, at times, a world-class hater.23 Apr 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6okiw7hk25https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mhxqzc7kd22hConnecticut 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 30.26 Mar 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxqzc7kd22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mhqen5blc22fIf 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.social23 Mar 2026 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqen5blc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mgfn726lrc2b"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" #MarkTwain06 Mar 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfn726lrc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mf5jkapdpk2sFrom 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.18 Feb 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5jkapdpk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mf5hh6iow227Happy 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. #HuckleberryFinn18 Feb 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5hh6iow227https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mer2xzdhls2yNeed 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. 💝13 Feb 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer2xzdhls2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mdxvfgeyhk2yThis #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.03 Feb 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxvfgeyhk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mdsmvcpjz22s"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" #MarkTwain01 Feb 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdsmvcpjz22shttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mdl34yf6oc2iOutside: nature’s ice sculpture exhibit. 🧊 Inside: warm rooms, good stories, and zero icicles. Come visit. marktwainhouse.org/visit/ #MarkTwainHouse #MarkTwain #Hartford #Museum #Connecticut29 Jan 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdl34yf6oc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mcuqtkk55s2jThe 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.20 Jan 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcuqtkk55s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mckevb44sk22"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 #MarkTwain16 Jan 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckevb44sk22https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mccqo2cmwc2m"That desire which is in us all to better other people's condition by having them think as we think." - What is Man #MarkTwain13 Jan 2026 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccqo2cmwc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mbuaawenms2qNew 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/ #SamsShorts07 Jan 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbuaawenms2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mb553vaiik2d"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..."29 Dec 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb553vaiik2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3malkfq334s26"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...22 Dec 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3malkfq334s26https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3mabkqwjki224The 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.org18 Dec 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabkqwjki224https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3ma73m65xzc24We have two author conversations lined up for January 2026 at The Mark Twain House, one virtual and one in person. Register: https://www.marktwainhouse.org/event/in-the-arena-with-david-s-brown-virtual/ #AuthorEvents #BookTalk #MarkTwainHouse #Hartford #Connecticut #NewEngland #LiteraryEvents17 Dec 2025 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma73m65xzc24https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m7ivz4jrjs2z"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 #MarkTwainQuotes08 Dec 2025 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ivz4jrjs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m7au46mqfk26Step 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.05 Dec 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7au46mqfk26https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m6u3xt4rvs27🎉 Happy 190th Birthday, Mark Twain! ✒️ Today we celebrate the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — born on this day in 1835. His stories, humor, and sharp observations still shape how we think about America, imagination, and ourselves.30 Nov 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6u3xt4rvs27https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m65qd5lnxc27December is packed with incredible author events at The Mark Twain House and Museum. Join us as we welcome leading scholars and storytellers who bring history, literature, and the Gilded Age to life.21 Nov 2025 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65qd5lnxc27https://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m5lzsd6yx22e“The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.” - Mark Twain’s Autobiography #marktwain #literature #marktwainquotes #compliments #kindness14 Nov 2025 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5lzsd6yx22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m4qiczgdis2m🖋 Grief Poetry Workshop at The Mark Twain House & Museum Writing can help us heal. Join poet and master teaching artist Victoria Nordlund for a special workshop that uses poetry to explore loss, reflection, and connection in a supportive setting.03 Nov 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qiczgdis2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m4j6vrhfvc2y🎃 Halloween visit at the Mark Twain House! We loved welcoming Lily Green and her family visiting from Jamestown Middle School in North Carolina, home to four student “houses,” including one named Twain! We think the “sorting hat” definitely did its job well. 🎩31 Oct 2025 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4j6vrhfvc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marktwainhouse.bsky.social/post/3m4bih7ipys22Gilded Age fit check. All white everything. ✨ #TwainBear #MarkTwain28 Oct 2025 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:eu2ifykepnntb56gwtmdwhyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bih7ipys22