MTH&M logo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: David Cash
860-247-0998, Ext. 243
FOR A PHOTO: Contact David Cash or go to our Press Room Photo Gallery.
 

Book Launch Event!

Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, 
Beauty, Fashion, Investment, 
Romance, Health & Happiness 
by Mark Dawidziak

Event features a performance based on the book
with Dawidziak and Sara Showman

Tuesday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m.

 

 

HARTFORD, Conn. --   

 

The Mark Twain House & Museum is pleased to present the launch of a new book, Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health & Happiness by Mark Dawidziak.

This event takes place on Tuesday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Lincoln Financial Services Auditorium at The Mark Twain House & Museum.

 

Largely Literary Theater Company co-founders Mark Dawidziak and Sara Showman present a selection of material drawn from this exciting new book. Collected and edited by veteran Twain enthusiast Dawidziak, this new book collects the Twain's often politically incorrect and always unapologetically honest advice on everything from drinking to swearing. Dawidziak plays Twain and Showman plays a variety of characters in this one-act presentation, which includes sections on "Curing a Cold" and politics. 

 

The television critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dawidziak has been portraying Twain on stage for more than 35 years. His previous Twain-centric books include Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing, Horton Foote's The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain and Mark Twain in Ohio

 

Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness is dedicated to Dawidziak's longtime friend, Hal Holbrook

 

This event is followed by a book sale and signing. Suggested donation $5. Please call (860) 280-3130 or visit marktwainhouse.org and click on Events.

 

 

The Mark Twain House & Museum (www.marktwainhouse.org) has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where Samuel L. Clemens and his family lived from 1874 to 1891.

 

Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived 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 daily, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The museum is closed Tuesdays during March. For more information, call (860) 247-0998 or visit www.marktwainhouse.org. 

 

Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are made possible in part by support from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign.