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The Mark Twain House And Museum Newsletter - March 12, 2023

Arts and Entertainment

March 13, 2023

From: The Mark Twain House and Museum

WAR DIARY from Kyiv with Yevgenia Belorusets (Virtual)
Thursday, March 16 at 12pm

In War Diary, Ukrainian artist, writer, and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets sets the loving attentive gaze against combat rhetoric and philanthropy against polarization. She talks about her parents, about the air-raid shelters, about the images in the media and in the streets. There are frightening images, but also familiar ones: because everyday life can also be found in the most horrifying: “It was a spring day, the sunspots played on the walls of the houses and on the white walls of St. Sophia Cathedral.” 

Virtual: $5 non-members and members. REGISTER HERE. 

Copies of?War Diary are available for purchase through the Mark Twain Store; proceeds benefit The Mark Twain House & Museum. Books will be shipped after the event. We regret that we are NOT able to ship books outside the United States as it is cost-prohibitive to do so. 

MARK Your Calendar

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

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You’re Invited…

The Mark Twain House & Museum invites you to the Grand Opening Reception for our brand new exhibition…

‘For Business or Pleasure? Twain’s Summer Sojourns’
Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Mark Twain House and Museum

Coming Next

“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

Author Sabrina Orah Mark on HAPPILY: A Personal History With Fairy Tales with Charter Oak Cultural Center Executive Director Rabbi Donna Berman, PhD (Virtual)
Tuesday, March 21 at 7pm ET

Based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily,” Sabrina Orah Mark will discuss her new memoir-in-essays which reimagines the modern fairy tale, turning it inside out and searching it for the wisdom to better understand our contemporary moment. She grapples with a loss of innocence of her son in “Sorry, Peter Pan, We’re Over You;” an unlikely communion with wicked wives and the roots of their bad reputation in “The Evil Stepmother;” and the hunt for a wigmaker in a time of unprecedented civil unrest in “Rapunzel, Draft One Thousand.” Set against the backdrop of our current age of upheaval, Mark locates the magic in the mundane and illuminates the surreality of life as we know it today. 

Virtual: $5 non-members and members. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

Step Into the Dark...

GRAVEYARD SHIFT GHOST TOURS (In-Person)
Friday, March 31 beginning at 6pm

Make a nighttime visit to the Victorian home of Mark Twain, a journey into the paranormal and haunted history. Featured on SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Academy, and Biography Channel’s My Ghost Story, you’re in for a night of mystery filled with creepy stories and exclusive accounts of unexplained encounters in the Clemens family home. Grab your tickets while you can…. they might disappear faster than a ghost!

Tickets: $29 / $21 for children 10 to 16. Not recommended for children under 10.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Come Visit!

Plan your visit to America's Best House Museum (Forbes Magazine, 2021) by CLICKING HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: The museum will be closed on Tuesdays through March. We will be open all other days from 9:30am to 4:30pm, with the final tour of the day stepping off at 3:15pm.

Upcoming Events

V = Virtual Event; IP = In-Person Event

March 16 - War Diary with Yevgenia Belorusets (V)

March 21 - MTH&M and Charter Oak Cultural Center present Happily: A Personal History -- With Fairy Tales with Sabrina Orah Mark (V)

March 28 - Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite with Dean King (V)

March 30 - Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller with Oliver Darkshire (V)

March 31 - Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours of The Mark Twain House (IP)

April 4 - Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure with Robert Lopez (IP & V)

April 13 - MTH&M and the American School for the Deaf present After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller with Max Wallace (V)

April 21 - The Bark Twain Bash...It's the Cat's Meow fundraiser with Kenway's Cause (IP)

April 25 at 12pm - The Unsealing: Gilded Age Love, Lust and Murder with Robert Brighton (V)

April 25 at 7pm - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho with Paterson Joseph (V)

April 27 at 7pm - Advika and the Hollywood Wives with Kirthana Ramisetti (V)

April 29 starting at 7pm - Get a Clue Murder Mystery Tours with Sea Tea Improv (IP)

To see all event information and registration, CLICK HERE.

To preorder books for our upcoming events, CLICK HERE. Signed books will be mailed after the event. Please note that we cannot ship outside of the U.S. at this time.