Northeastern US in 2014 -- Ancestors, Descendants, and American History, page 7

All pictures, unless otherwise noted, are copyright 2013 by John A. and Elizabeth B. Lucas. All rights reserved.

Greene County, PA    Harper's Ferry, WV    Baltimore and St. Michaels, MD    Williamsburg and Jamestown, VA    Charlottesville, VA    
Skyline Drive (Shenandoah National Park), VA    Hartford, CT     Old Sturbridge Village, MA

Hartford, CT and the Mark Twain House

We have driven through Hartford several times a year for 40 years and more. John taught multi-week courses in Hartford in the mid-1980s. And yet we never stopped in the city to visit the 1874-1891 home of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), John's favorite author. It was in this house that Twain wrote

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
• The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), regarded by many as his masterpiece and one of the great classics
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
• "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It" (1874)
• "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875)
• "A Literary Nightmare" (1876)
• "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (1876)
• "The Invalid's Story" (1877)
• "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879)
• "1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" (1880)
• "The Stolen White Elephant" (1882)
• "Luck" (1891)
• Sketches New and Old (1875), short story collection
• A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (1877), short story collection
• Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878), short story collection
• Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888), short story collection
• "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" (1880)
• "The Awful German Language" (1880)
• "Advice to Youth" (1882)
• "English As She Is Taught" (1887)
• Old Times on the Mississippi (1876), travel
• A Tramp Abroad (1880), travel
• Life on the Mississippi (1883), travel

The Mark Twain House (officially The Mark Twain House & Museum) does not allow photography inside so our pictures are of the exterior. The virtual tour on the website DOES give views of each room and we recommend browsing through it. In many ways, the billiard room at the top of the house is the focal point of his artistic life, as opposed to family or public life on the lower floors.

The coach house

A counter-clockwise walk around the outside






 

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