Mark Twain: Seventeen Summers in a Garden

Schedule

Tue Nov 17 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

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Bristol Public Library | Bristol, CT

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How Twain’s decades in Connecticut shaped his writing, family, and social life.
About this Event

Although his most famous works were set along the Mississippi River of his childhood, Mark Twain composed those novels while living in Nook Farm, a neighborhood of Hartford, full of celebrated literary figures. This program explores what it was like in this vibrant community of authors and activists, whose residents included not only Twain, but also novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, travel writer and journalist Charles Dudley Warner, Civil War hero and senator Joseph Hawley, and female suffrage campaigner Isabella Beecher Hooker. It also considers the ways Twain’s decades in Connecticut shaped his writing, family, and social life.

Presented by the Staff of The Mark Twain House Museum.

Free Admission.

No Charge. RSVP: www.bristollib.com, 860.584.7787 x 3 or visit the library


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Bristol Public Library, 5 High Street, Bristol, United States

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