Greetings!
Next week, the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford begins its spring season of “The Trouble Begins at 5:30,” the popular series of free Twainian lectures – preceded by pasta and wine at 5:00 p.m. -- that is now in its ninth year.
On Wednesday, March 27, Jane Curley, the historian for the Onteora Club in Tannersville, N.Y., will speak on “‘Those Damned Yeller Sunsets’: The Clemens Family’s Summer in the Catskills” -- that well-photographed summer of 1890 when the Clemenses stayed at the literary and artistic colony.
The family traveled there at the invitation of Candace Wheeler, co-founder with Louis Comfort Tiffany of the design firm Associated Artists, which had decorated the Hartford house. Onteora was Wheeler’s brainchild: a rustic retreat for her family and friends, founded in 1888. Summer activities included dress-up, charades and portrait sittings with absinthe and cigars.
More can be seen in the Calendar section of our website: www.martwainhouse.org.The event is free, but pre-registration is strongly suggested
The spring continues with the following talks:
Wednesday, April 24: Dan Mrozowski, Director of Graduate Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, on "A Born Bummer & a Brother Author: The Battered Friendship of Bret Harte and Mark Twain."
Wednesday, May 22: Kevin Mac Donnell, collector, bookseller, and premier independent Twain scholar on “Mark Twain at Ten Paces,” Kevin’s further exploration – now with a new twist -- of the author’s famed pseudonym.
Wednesday, June 12: Stephen Kinzer, author, on his book “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of the American Empire.”
Many, many thanks to Joe Lemak and the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College for their generosity in helping support these lectures – even after we snitched the name of the series (or an elaboration thereof) from the Center back in 2010.
Best,
Steve
Steve Courtney
Curatorial Special Projects Coordinator
The Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
860-302-8969
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