Hartford House Hosts Lecture About Susy Clemens
Virtual lecture takes place tomorrow (December 7) at 7:00pm.
Tag: Susy Clemens
A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain’s Emo Playlist
Mark Twain’s complicated relationship with music reveals much about his writing process, personality, politics, and family relationships.
Elmira Composer’s Arrangement of Clemens Family Poem Performed at Mark Twain House by Hartford Chamber Ensemble
Listen to & learn about “Good Night, Dear Heart,” a composition by Elmira native, Dan Forrest, based upon Susy Clemens’s headstone.
Final Episode of Inaugural Season of The American Vandal Podcast Features Reading & Discussion of Mark Twain’s “Letter From Santa Claus”
In homage to the season, we dedicate an episode to Mark Twain’s 1875 letter to his daughter, in which he impersonates the “jolly old elf.”
Hartford House Host Conversation with Historical Impersonator of Susy Clemens, Next Conversation Scheduled
Next conversation takes place Thursday, June 11 at 5:30pm EDT.
The Quietest Place (A Quarry Farm Fellow Testimonial)
Linda A Morris discusses her recent Quarry Farm Fellowship and her work in progress about Susy Clemens.
Special “Trouble Begins” Event Features Play and Lecture
Play and Lecture start at 5:30pm on Wednesday, May 29 at Quarry Farm.
World Premiere of One-Act Play About Mark Twain & Claude Monet
The 2018 Humor in America Conference at Roosevelt University in Chicago included the world premiere of “Waiting For Susy,” a one-act play by Bruce Michelson. “Waiting for Susy” is set in Rouen in September of 1894, at a moment when Twain and his family were living in France, trying to save money and preparing for the global lecture tour which would begin the next summer. During the same year, Monet […]
Mark Twain, Santa Claus Impersonator
WNPR (Hartford) ran a segment this week about Mark Twain’s “Letter From Santa Claus” featuring an interview with The Mark Twain House‘s Director of Education, James Golden. You can listen to it below: You can read the complete letter in the Mark Twain Project’s digital archive. It is clear that Sam succeeded in instilling Susy (the receiver of Santa’s letter) with the spirit of the season. A few years later, in […]
Hanging The Crane In Hartford: Mark Twain’s 39th Birthday
Sam Clemens celebrated his 39th birthday on November 30, 1874 with his wife, Livy, and their two young daughters. Both Sam and Livy’s birthdays fell in close proximity to the Thanksgiving holiday. It was naturally a season dense with revelry and gift-giving, mostly focused around the children, but Livy did not forget her husband, presenting him with the recently-published first edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Hanging of the Crane, illustrated by […]