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The Mark Twain House
& Museum Newsletter
January 16, 2014
 
Our Special 'Thank You' Issue

The Mark Twain House & Museum is deeply grateful to all who have donated in response to our Annual Appeal or joined as valued members since mid-November. This has indeed been a holiday season that brought out the generosity in our region and beyond in support of an institution dedicated to celebrating, and educating about, the wit, wisdom and brilliance of one of America's finest writers. (To change your donor listing, or for questions about your gift, please contact Sarah Hawkes at 860-280-3112 or [email protected].)

...and if you're not on this list, you still have the opportunity to join or donate, be listed in our next newsletter, and enjoy the benefits of membership! Simply go here to donate, or go here to join. Or, again, call the indomitable Sarah Hawkes at 860-280-3112.

Really, we are deeply moved and feel truly blessed by this remarkable outpouring of generosity.


Individual Donors
November 18, 2013-January 8, 2014

Richard F. Ahles
Stephen Altschuler
Jane E. Ambrozaitis
Carolyn Arvidson
Ethel H. Atz
Timothy F. Bannon & Lorraine Aronson
Elizabeth M. Barnes
Sara Batchelder
Maxwell Belding & Sally E. Newell
Alan L. Benford
Linda Biancalani
Duane Bietz
Jerry A. Bilton
Louis Blumenfeld & Jacqueline Isaacson
Deanne Born & Dennis Golbesky
Gregory & Harriet Boyko
Dr. Sybille Brewer
Richard Brewster
Harold & Joyce Buckingham
Richard A. Byam
Steven M. & Rebekah S. Cafrelli
Keith & Kim Carpenter
Edward & Sally Carrier
Howard & Sue Carver
Coleman H. & Jo Champlin Casey
Mark E. & Victoria Woodin Chavey
Frank S. & Mary Anne Chew
David W. & Anna F. Clark
Mark Cocalis & Lisa Ann Erburu
Glenn E. Coe
Michael D. Coe
Dr. William H. Cohn
Raymond & Kimberly Conforti
Mary Jane Converse
Alison Coolbrith
Thomas B. & Diane Copeland
Linda R. Cromwell
Edwin & Patricia Dahill
Philip E. Davis
William & Mary Anne DeGrazia
John B. DeLaney
Dede & Frank Derosa
Francis J. DeRosa
Nancy Dunbar
Michael J. Dury
Bob Englehart & Pat McGrath
Susan A. Fair
Paul & Gayle Fiser
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Brian & Melanie Flaherty
Ida Gall
Ted & Mary Gawlicki
Douglas & Christina Gerbino
Edward D. & Elaine S. Gladstone
Heidi Schreiner Godleski
Dianne Goodrich
David & Cynthia Gordon
Fran Gordon
Kevin Gough & Paula Jones
Joseph & Janet W. Grasso
Walter & Roberta Greenberg
Arthur & Zadelle Krasow Greenblatt
Elysa Greenblatt
Dr. Alan D. Gribben
Welles & Lillian Guilmartin
Margo Lynn Hablutzel
Elwyn V. & Elsie H. Harp
Laura Harris
William J. & Susan K. Harris
Anne M. Healey
Alice Hendrickson
Robert & Darlene Hermann
John & Marcia Hincks
Donald & Jeanne Hochstetler
Steven J. Hoffman
Jules A. Hopnowski
Denis E. & Patricia A. Horgan
Christopher & Nancy Houlihan
Joseph A. & Susan Iacovelli
Robert Ignagni & Jen Dolan
Alice Jena
Dr. James F. & Mrs. Jan Sheets Jones
Deborah Kandzerski
John G. & Violetta P. Kava
Patrick W. & Ann F. Kenny
John J. & Sara D. Koziol
Alice K. Kugelman
Norman & Cindy Landry
Christopher & Janet Larsen
Frederick & Janet Leonberger
Coleman & Judie Levy
Robert C. & Carol L. Lindberg
Edwin O. Lomerson, Jr.
Richard & Linda Loretz
Adam & Jessica Lovell
Dr. Cindy Lovell
Richard A. Lowenstein
Alfred Maher
Louise E. Mann
Vincent A. Marcelli
Dr. Leta W. Marks
Kathleen Coville Marr
Margaret L. McCarthy
John H. McDevitt
Donald McGilvray
Bruce F. & Theresa H. Michelson
Miriam Miller
Robert & Lynn Mocarsky
Lawrence V. Mowell
Timothy & Rosemary Moynihan
Frederick J. & Eleanor May Mullen
Alan & Jo Anne Nadritch
Bichop & Linda Nawrot
Janice L. Niehaus
Steve Nightingale & Vaughan Finn
Sara C. Norris
K. Patrick & Cathy I. Ober
Dale Outhouse
Marcia Parish
Lewis P. & Judith C. Parker
Vivian M. Partridge
Sharon Parzych
Phyllis G. Pasternak
Charles & Carol Paydos
David & Laura Pels
Robert Perkin
Brian & Dina Phelps
Judith C. Pierson
Alice Pritchard
Claire M. Pryor
Kenneth J. & Mary Jane Quarti
Thomas & Gloria Ranney
Laura Reiter
Louis Riggs
Michael J. Riley
Catherine Riordan & Kurt Raschi
Susan Varnum Smith Rubin
Elizabeth S. Russell
Mary T. Sargent
Alison V. Scherer
Samuel L. Schrager & Terry Gellin
George & Rhonda Scurlock
G. William & Anne Seawright
Jonathan & Beverly Seymour
Paul Shipman
Sonia Shipman
Barbara Sicherman
Gretchen S. Skelley
Deborah D. Sprague
Sandra T. Stein
Robert E. Stewart
Andrew M. Sullivan
Timothy & Geraldine Sullivan
Charles A. Surko
John & Dorothea Talcott
Brian Tamms
Jennifer & Philip Tombaugh
James Tricarico
Theodore J. Tucci & Nancy A. Hronek
Barbara B. Valk
Carolyn D. Vallieres
Hope W. Vath & George Kirkutis
Philip S. Walker
Judith A. W. Wawro
Richard & Maureen Wenner
Jacqueline R. Werner
Michael G. & Margaret C. Wheeler
Diane White
Edward B. & Brooke Whittemore
Janice Wood Williams
Hunter & Daryl Wilson
Susan L. Winter
Andrew L. Wizner
David J. & Sylvia Jane Wojcik
Virginia Wolf
William E. Woodburn, Jr.
Yosef Wosk & Margaret Brown
Ann Vibert Wuelfing
Pauline P. Zidlick

Institutional Donors
November 18, 2013-January 8, 2014 
 
Aaron Hollander Funds
The Barnes Foundation
Berkshire Bank
Colonial Lords of Manors in America
Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association
Connecticut Light and Power Company
Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation
Dr. Harry M. Day Charitable Foundation
Duclos Family Charitable Trust Fund
Fisher Foundation
The Imagineers Foundation, Inc.
The Katharine K. McLane and Henry R. McLane Charitable Trust
Lamb Family Fund
The Mark Twain Foundation
The Owenoke Foundation
River Oaks Foundation
Ruth & Jack Glantz Family Foundation
The Saunders Foundation
The Shulansky Foundation, Inc.
Simon Hollander Funds
Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation

New Members
November 18, 2013-January 8, 2014
 
Nathan Adams
David T. Allen
Stephen Altschuler
Dermot & Nancy Atkinson
Leora A. Berns
Charles S. Bordeau
Sandra Brangiero
Kyle Brewer
Joanne Caissie
Terri Collins
Cynthia Costigan
Arthur & Sandra DeGraff
Martin J. Duffy
Catherine Dunn
Nancy Ferguson
Steven G. Futernick
Susan S. Gagliardi
Randy Jacobs & Amy Gallent
Robin Harvey
Lorrie M. Hill
Dawn C. Hoffman
Neil Hoss
Judith Jakubowski
Donna M. Jarlenski
Ellen Kalinkat
Edward & Karen Larkin
Laura E. McLelland
Thomas B. Mooney
Deborah Key Mundair
John P. Murphy
Lucia Onofrio
Mitchel G. Overbye
Kelly A. Raimo
Richard J. Reinhart
Denise & Del Rose
Anne Schick
David & Deborah Schultz
Thomas L. Seymour
Ravi Shankar
Ronald Sommer
Theodore Steger
Ben Storch & Mikie Tajima
Marc Sumberg & Colleen Kydd-Sumberg
Steve Tracy
Elaine Widmer & Tom Gruber
Deborah Wilson
Virginia Wolf
Yosef Wolvovsky
Allison E. Young
 

 

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JANUARY EVENTS

 (For full descriptions, click here.)

  

GET A CLUE Tours!

Saturday, January 18, tours step off every 15 minutes beginning at 7 p.m.: Reservations required. This hourlong tour features SEA TEA IMPROV as Twain's beloved characters/suspects. $20, with discounts available for children. (860) 280-3130.

 

PRINCE RING: A Winter Solstice Fairytale from Iceland with storyteller Tom Lee.

Sunday, January 19, 2 p.m. A special program for families, appropriate for children ages 7 and up. Tickets -- $15; $6 for children 16 and under. (860) 280-3130

 

Free Day for Hartford residents

Monday, January 20, 9:30-5:30.

Thanks to The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., we are once again offering free tours to our valued neighbors -- the residents of the city of Hartford. Please bring proof of residency. 

 

"Stagecraft: 50 Years of Design at Hartford Stage," Jan. 21-March 5. In celebration of Hartford Stage's 50th Anniversary Season, we host this exhibition of costumes, props and scenic elements from the company's extensive collection in Hal Holbrook Hall. Free with museum admission.

 

Nook Farm Book Talks: 12 Years a Slave, Wed., Jan. 22. 5:00 pm reception. 5:30 p.m. discussion at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. The true tale of Solomon Northrup, on which the hit movie is based. Nook Farm Book Talks are informal conversations presented jointly by The Mark Twain House & Museum and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Free event.

 

 

COLT: The Revolver of the American West with author Jeffrey Richardson, Thurs., Jan. 30, 6:00 p.m. reception; 7:00 p.m. talk.

Richardson, firearm curator of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and author of COLT: The Revolver of the American West, will discuss this new book and Colt's connections to Hartford. Free event. Reception catered by the Colt Cafe and sponsored by Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC 

 

 

 

  

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Our Annual Meeting:
Thursday, January 23

We invite our valued members to The Mark Twain House & Museum Annual Meeting, Thursday, January 23, at 6:30 p.m., with a reception to follow. Craig Hotchkiss, Educational Program Manager, will speak on 
"Mark Twain's Business Axiom." 

(Snow date Friday, January 24.)






The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works there, including
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain's restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain's literary legacy and provide information about his life and times. The house and museum at 351 Farmington Ave. are open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5:30 p.m. For more information, call 860-247-0998 or visit us online. Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are supported by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign.
David Cash
Mark Twain House & Museum