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Tom Sawyer Day - Adventures Abroad!

Take a Journey Around the World with 

The Mark Twain House & Museum's 

Annual Day for Families 

 

 

HARTFORD, Conn. -- 

  

On Saturday, June 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., The Mark Twain House & Museum presents its annual family fun event Tom Sawyer Day  -- this time with a international twist as "Tom Sawyer Day: Adventures Abroad."

 

Mark Twain was well known for his international travels.  His first book was The Innocents Abroad. And he wrote a sequel to his autobiographical novel The Adventures of  Tom Sawyer called Tom Sawyer Abroad.  The Museum's 2015 exhibition is "Travel is Fatal To Prejudice: Mark Twain's Journeys Abroad," chronicling Twain's adventures around the globe, making this a perfect opportunity for parents to bring their kids on a worldwide adventure.

 

The free event will include pony rides, a petting zoo, live music, games, arts & crafts, the Mark Twain Players from Hartford Stage, food trucks, and much more fun & entertainment!

 

The live music will include an international array: Fiesta del Norte, a mariachi band that performs traditional folk and popular music of Mexico; Horizon Blue, a quartet, that performs Americana and country music; and Nzinga's Daughters, a group that sings African, Caribbean and African-American songs.

 

Discount tours of the Mark Twain House will be available at $10 for adults and seniors and $5 for children.

 

Tom Sawyer Day is generously supported by the Farmington Bank Community Foundation, the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign, and the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, Trustee.

 

 

   

The Mark Twain House & Museum (www.marktwainhouse.org) 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 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. 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 & Community Development, Office of the Arts, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign.