Mark Twain's Hartford CT Neighborhood: Nook Farm

Описание: Mark Twain lived for 20 years in the neighborhood of Nook Farm in Hartford, Connecticut, 17 of them in his own house, which is now a museum. This video is about Mark Twain's house in the context of Nook Farm and the houses of his neighbors, who included Harriet Beecher Stowe, John and Isabella Beecher Hooker, the young William Gillette, Charles Dudley Warner and his brother George H. Warner, and many others. Katharine Hepburn later grew up in a house in Nook Farm.

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Some of the images used in this video are from the collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History:

John & Isabella Beecher Hooker
Accession Number 1982.80.367
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:10961

Charles Dudley Warner
Accession Number 2000.175.15
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19063

Charles Dudley Warner’s Home
Accession Number 2017.86.41
http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object...

Charles Dudley Warner’s Home
Accession Number 2017.86.40
http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object...

133 Hawthorne Street, Hartford
Accession Number 1995.36.1745
http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object...