Thursday, November 3 at 7pm ET - RETAIL GANGSTER - The INSANE, Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE with Gary Weiss and Dan Haar (Virtual)

Before Enron, before Madoff, before?The Wolf of Wall Street, "Crazy Eddie" Antar’s corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the bloodstream of everyone’s daily life in the 1970s and early ’80s. And Eddie pulled it off with a certain style, an in-your-face blue collar chutzpah. Despite the fact that then U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff called him “the Darth Vader of capitalism” after the extent of the fraud was revealed, one of the largest SEC frauds in American history after Crazy Eddie’s stores went public in 1984, Eddie was talked about fondly by the people who worked for him. They still do–there are myriads of ex-Crazy Eddie employee web pages that still attract fans, and the Crazy Eddie fraud scheme is now taught in every business school across the United States.?

You'd be INSANE to miss this FREE virtual event! LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Just Announced!

Tuesday, November 22 at 6pm ET- Literary Happy Hour with TWAS THE NIGHT: The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem author Pamela McColl (In-Person)

Raise a toast to the holiday season with our new Literary Happy Hour! From 6 pm to 7 pm, we will gather in our intimate Nook Café for a wine/beer cash bar and sandwiches, salads, and snacks for sale. At 7 pm, Twas the Night author Pamela McColl joins The MTH&M’s own Rebecca Floyd in conversation. 

Twas The Night – The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem?is the first cultural history to be published of the highly-celebrated poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” also known as “’Twas The Night Before Christmas."

Over two hundred images are presented in the book including artwork by Jessie Willcox Smith, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, N.C. Wyeth, F.O.C. Darley, and the incomparable Thomas Nast. In 2022 and 2023 the poem marks two bi-centennial milestones; first read aloud by Clement Clarke Moore of New York on Christmas Eve 1822, with its print debut appearing in the Troy Sentinel newspapers of Troy, New York for December 23, 1823.?

In-Person Event! Tickets: $5. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Next Week

Monday, November 7 at 7pm ET - MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME - A Novel with Rasheed Newson and Edwin Sánchez (Virtual)

Rasheed Newson, writer and producer of THE CHI,?NARCOS, and?BEL-AIR, joins playwright and novelist Edwin Sanchez to discuss Newson’s fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City.

FREE virtual event! LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Tuesday, November 8 at 7pm ET - Printmakers' Network of Southern New England present a VIRTUAL GALLERY TALK: DREAMS, PRINTING & LIGHT (Virtual)

Join artists Jim Lee, Margot Rocklen, and Jo Yarrington about the themes, inspiration, and techniques on view in The Evocative Mark Twain Inspires the Printmakers Network of Southern New England exhibit taking place at the Mark Twain House & Museum now through January 23, 2023.

Jim Lee will speak about his artistic response to two Mark Twain quotes from The Mysterious Stranger manuscripts, 1902-08, unpublished in Twain’s lifetime.

Margot will discuss her visual response to Mark Twain’s article celebrating the opening in 1900, of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany.

Jo Yarrington will explain her artistic response to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what Twain calls a “mental kaleidoscope” and the marking of time.

Virtual conversation via Zoom. Tickets: $5 per stream. LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

Thursday, November 10 at 7pm ET - THE LAST CAMPAIGN: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America - A Virtual Lecture with H.W. Brands (Virtual)

Historian and Professor H. W. Brands will discuss his book THE LAST CAMPAIGN: SHERMAN, GERONIMO AND THE WAR FOR AMERICA, which tells the story of the final struggle for control of the American continent through the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo. Brands documents decades of relentless government actions to push Native Americans away through the exploration of the brutal relocation campaigns, internal debates among tribal leaders, and key battles. This includes Sherman’s plan to force Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation—with Geronimo preferring to fight. 

FREE Virtual Event! LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE. 

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Upcoming Events

V = Virtual Event; IP = In-Person Event

November 3 - Retail Gangster: The INSANE, Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE with Gary Weiss (V)

November 4 - Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Celebration (IP)

November 7 - My Government Means to Kill Me with Rasheed Newson (V)

November 8 - Virtual Gallery Talk with Printmakers' Network of Southern New England (V)

November 10 - H.W. Brands on The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America (V)

November 15 - This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology with Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman (V)

November 17 - The MTH&M and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum present a lunchtime conversation with Women of the American West with Katie Hickman and April White (V)

November 22. -Literary Happy Hour: Twas the Night - The Art and History of the Classic Poem with Pamela McColl (IP)

November 29 - Amistad Center & MTH&M present The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family with Kerri K. Greenidge (V)

December 1 - Amistad Center & MTH&M present Radical Lives: Four Abolitionists with Linda Hirshman and Lydia Moland (V)

December 7 - The Trouble Begins at Home: Susy Clemens' Final Years (V)

December 8 - Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with RJ Young (V)

December 12 - Peniel E. Joseph on The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (V)

December 13 - The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate with Eric Vanden Eykel (V)

January 17 - The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow with Chuck Thompson

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Support the House

Author programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are sponsored by Connecticut Public Broadcasting and the Wish You Well Foundation. Virtual author programs are supported by Suzanne Hopgood in the memory of former MTH&M Trustee Frank Lord.

Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are made possible in part by support from CT Humanities; the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts; Ensworth Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee; the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign; The Hartford; The Mark Twain Foundation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; and Travelers.