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The word from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford
My column about Hartford museums generated some good response. You'll read what the Mark Twain House has to say in a letter to the editor. Here's what Katherine Kane, executive director of the Harriet...
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Some Hartford-area museums actually want you to come visit.
Instead of being so defensive, Hartford museums might want to pay attention to their neighbors in New Britain, West Hartford and Farmington. Where's the Noah Webster House?
View ArticleMuseum lessons for Hartford from Springfield, of all places
Why can't we see something like this in Hartford? A reader sent me this: Recently my wife and I drove to Springfield to check out their Museums. Four museums are clustered around a large green with...
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Steve Courtney blows the lid off museum admission fees!
The Mark Twain House's Steve Courtney has conducted his own exhaustive survey of museum admission prices, no doubt using the skills honed during his years on the Courant copy desk, where he was one of...
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Non-stop Mystic Moby Dick!
This from Mystic Seaport about the Moby Dick Marathon starting Friday: The reading of all 135 chapters of Moby-Dick begins at noon on Friday, July 31st. It continues overnight, concluding at noon on...
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Free ice cream, soda and almost-free tours at M.T. House today
Give them some credit. The Mark Twain House and Museum really wants you to stop by. They're offering UConn dairy bar ice cream, Avery's soda, live tunes and $5 tours of the servants' quarters. Come on...
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WAMA says, get out and Blog This! Tats, food and cocktails too!
This just in from Kimberly Reynolds at the Wadsworth: The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art invites you to join us at our inaugural Blog This! event, on August 6, from 4:30 - 6:30 pm. Blog This! will...
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Hill-Stead And Neighbors: Can We Party And Get Along?
Here's to the Hill-Stead Museum and its creative efforts to survive in a tough economy. Poetry and live music. Weddings. Graduation parties. A Sunday morning farmers market. The old house overlooking...
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