Twain & Stowe

Mark Twain and his family lived in Hartford, CT for many years.  He married money and it was her money that built their large attractive home in Hartford.  Mark earned a good deal of $ himself but squandered much of it in his early years, betting heavily on poor investments.

The family lived lavishly and entertained a great deal.  It seems that in the later years, Mark's judgement on investments improved - or maybe Mrs Twain (Mrs Clemens, really) was able to keep him on a short leash.  Here are pix of the house.

Trish toured the inside of the house and also the nearby domicile of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Upon meeting Ms Stowe, pres Lincoln allegedly said in jest that she was 'the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war'.  In my view, the war was inevitable but Stowe's book undoubtedly helped it along.