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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Weekend returns November 6–7 for its 10th anniversary. Nov. 6: Literary Award Celebration Nov. 7: Creative Writing in the Age of AI 🎟️ marktwainaward.org #MarkTwain #AmericanLiterature #CreativeWriting #ArtificialIntelligence

A digital graphic for the MTAVL 2026 Weekend

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Announcing the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Shortlist! Learn more about the special weekend of events in November marktwainaward.org/2026-avl-wee... Sign up for the MTAVL newsletter by midnight for a ticket presale code mailchi.mp/933aef08eecc...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ghost Tours at the Mark Twain House are BACK! Get your tickets soon as these tours are extremely popular. eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Mark your calendar and reserve your tickets for the 11th Annual Bark Twain Bash! It's the Cats Meow .... eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Join us for a very special free event on August 4, 7:00pm. Register today! eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is a limited run so get your tickets today! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn puppet show through July 20. eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join us tomorrow evening when we welcome Daniel Mason back to the Mark Twain House for a discussion of his new novel, Country People. Get your book bundle/ticket here: eventmanager.vbotickets.com/tickets.asp?...

Photo of book cover for Daniel Mason's new novel Country People. Photo of author and Rand Richards Cooper who will be in discussion with Mason. Event is on July 10 at 7pm.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s been kind’ve a long time since we made an episode with Twain squarely at the center. Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social, @ceaubin.com, @marktwainhouse.bsky.social, & @thisguysucked.com we gave our “patron saint of haters” his tithing.

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This Guy Sucked (Vandal Live @ Mark Twain House & Museum)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm really excited that we'll be welcoming @unlawfulentries.bsky.social to @marktwainhouse.bsky.social on June 25 for a conversation about her new book! Join us in person or on the live stream! marktwainhouse.org/event/migrat...

a promotional graphic for Anna Law in conversation on her new book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Join 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.

A digital graphic for the poetry event at the Mark Twain House featuring three photos of the house from different historical periods.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Mark Twain may be one of America’s greatest writers. He was also, at times, a world-class hater.

Digital graphics of Mark Twain and his many, many, dislikes.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Connecticut 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.

Digital graphics for the NFWC Summer 2026 at the Mark Twain House & Museum.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If 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.social

A digital graphic for the "This Guy Sucked," podcast at the Mark Twain House & Museum

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

For $10 ($7 with a membership!) you can find out whether I think Mark Twain sucked. At the @marktwainhouse.bsky.social. No spoilers. Seriously, The American Vandal’s first ever crossover pod with @thisguysucked.com, hosted by @ceaubin.com, joined by @erinbartram.bsky.social This will be fun.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Some of you may remember a day last year when @ceaubin.com and I found each other at the museum. I'm so excited to reveal what came from that meeting! Join us and @mattseybold.bsky.social at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social in May for a live dual podcast recording. marktwainhouse.org/event/he-des...

a poster for the event "he despised himself" an evening with this guy sucked and the american vandal at the mark twain house & museum on May 6. it features a photo of Mark Twain with a yellow scribble over his face saying "this guy sucked"

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"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" #MarkTwain

A digital graphic of Mark Twain looking out of the window of his writing room with a quote.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

From 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.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Happy 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. #HuckleberryFinn

A digital graphic collage of Huckleberry Finn featuring the first edition book cover, a signature of Mark Twain, and a photograph of Mark Twain.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Need 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. 💝

A digital graphic of Mark Twain with a hand-written note.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This #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.

A digital graphic for the George Griffin campaign

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

"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" #MarkTwain

A digital quote graphic containing a photo of Mark Twain with a dog.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Outside: nature’s ice sculpture exhibit. 🧊 Inside: warm rooms, good stories, and zero icicles. Come visit. marktwainhouse.org/visit/ #MarkTwainHouse #MarkTwain #Hartford #Museum #Connecticut

The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT covered in snow and ice.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The 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.

A digital graphic portraying Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and his new book Chain of Ideas.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"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 #MarkTwain

A black and white portrait of a young Mark Twain.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"That desire which is in us all to better other people's condition by having them think as we think." - What is Man #MarkTwain

Mark Twain, wearing his classic white suit, sitting in a chair on his front porch with smoking pipe in hand.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New 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/ #SamsShorts

A digital graphic for the January 2026 edition of Sam's Shorts featuring Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

"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..."

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"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...

A seated Mark Twain holding a pipe, wearing his traditional white suit.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The 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.org

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We have two author conversations lined up for January 2026 at The Mark Twain House, one virtual and one in person. Register: www.marktwainhouse.org/event/in-the... #AuthorEvents #BookTalk #MarkTwainHouse #Hartford #Connecticut #NewEngland #LiteraryEvents

A digital graphic for the January 2026 author events at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

"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 #MarkTwainQuotes

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) black and white portrait, seated in suit, holding a cigar.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Step 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.

A digital graphic for the Christmas Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT. It features indoor photographs from the house.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

🎉 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.

A digital graphic with birthday icons with Mark Twain in the middle wearing a crown. Above his head is the text "Happy Birthday!!!"

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

December 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.

A digital graphic for the upcoming author events in December 2025 at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“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 #kindness

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, pondering and writing in his study. Black and white photograph. Mark Twain in full suit.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🖋 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.

A digital graphic for the Grief Poetry Workshops at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT. It features an antique typewriter and a small graphic of the Gilded Age home.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎃 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. 🎩

A visitor wearing a Twain hoodie with our tour guide Beth in front of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT on a beautiful Halloween day with autumn foliage on full display.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” - Mark Twain (The Prince and the Pauper) #MarkTwain #MarkTwainQuotes #Books #Literature

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain sitting at his writing desk at Elmira College in Elmira, New York.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We Have a Winner! 🎉🏆 The Mark Twain House & Museum proudly announces Ben Shattuck as the recipient of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for his stunning story collection, The History of Sound (Viking). @vikingbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just posted this up at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social and you can read and respond here. It's an excerpt from "What Have The Police Been Doing?" published in San Francisco, in 1866, and it's a Twain piece I've wanted to share in this forum for years. It felt like the right moment.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

“The devil’s aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot’s dread of a newspaper that laughs.” - “The American Press,” first printed in Mark Twain: Press Critic, University of California Press, 2003.

Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain, sitting and reading a newspaper.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

✨ Free Event This Friday, 9/19! ✨ Join us at The Mark Twain House & Museum, in person or online, for a conversation with John Warner, author of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI.

A digital graphic for the More Than Words event at the Mark Twain House and Museum.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Mark Twain House & Museum family just got a little bigger. ❤️ Please join us in welcoming our newest guides! They’ll be leading tours, answering questions, and helping to share Twain’s timeless words with every visitor who walks through our doors.

A group of new tour guides posing on the deck of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.

A group of new tour guides posing on the patio of the Mark Twain House Museum in Hartford, CT.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied." - "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" Visit the home where Twain's wit still speaks to the world The Mark Twain House & Museum #MarkTwain #MarkTwainHouse #MarkTwainQuotes #TwainQuotes

A black and white photo of Twain in a dark suit looking directly at the camera.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Shortlist for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (Mark Twain Award)! 📖 This year’s list spans voices, regions, and stories that shine new light on the American experience.

The 2025 Mark Twain Award Shortlist graphic with author and book names.

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📢 FREE EVENT! Join us in-person or via livestream on September 19, 7PM (ET) for MORE THAN WORDS: HOW TO THINK ABOUT WRITING IN THE AGE OF AI. #AI #AuthorEvent #MarkTwainHouse #Literature #Connecticut #Hartford #ArtificialIntelligence @erinbartram.bsky.social

A digital flyer for the More Than Words book event at the Mark Twain House and Museum.

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