The house is never truly empty. Shadows linger, whispers carry, and history refuses to rest. 👻 Join us for a Mark Twain House Ghost Tour and discover the haunted history, Victorian traditions, and eerie tales that still echo through these halls. 🎟️ Reserve your spot before they vanish: https://marktwainhouse.org/event/graveyard-shift-ghost-tours-2025-3/ #HauntedHartford #MarkTwainHouse #GhostTours Visit Connecticut Live Connecticut Hartford.com | The Mark Twain House & Museum

12K views · 349 reactions | It’s Hartford Marathon day! Good luck to all runners! ‍♀️ The Mark Twain House & Museum will be open during regular hours (9:30am-5:30pm) on Saturday, October 11, but please be aware that road closures will impact our parking lots from 7:00-10:00AM. Good luck to all the marathon runners!  #marktwainhouse #hartford #hartfordmarathon | The Mark Twain House & Museum | Facebook

💡 Most people know Mark Twain as America’s great humorist and storyteller, but fewer realize that Samuel Clemens was also an inventor. Over the course of his life, Twain secured three U.S. patents: 🧥 In 1871, he designed adjustable and detachable garment straps as an alternative to uncomfortable suspenders. 📔 In 1873, he patented a self-pasting scrapbook, which became his most successful invention and sold more than 25,000 copies. ♟️ In 1885, he patented the “Memory-Builder,” an educational t

You’ve seen his face, read his words, and felt his wit echo through generations. But you’ve never heard his voice. For all his fame as the most celebrated speaker of his century, no authentic recording of Mark Twain’s voice has ever been found. Though he experimented with early recording technology in the late 1800s, any cylinders he may have made have vanished. What survives instead is a haunting echo of what might have been. In 1934, at Harvard University, actor and playwright William Gillette