Book Look At The Nook (Farm, That Is), A Series Continues

Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) would be proud.


The Nook Farm Book Club at Mark Twain House & Museum initial meeting was to talk about Huckleberry Finn.

The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center continue to work together for six Thursdays from February to July - and the center of interest is books.

Upcoming reading list:

March 4, Uncle Tom's Cabin (@ Stowe)
April 1, Promised Land (@ Stowe)
May 6, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective (@ Twain)
June 3, Stowe In Her Own Time (@ Stowe)
July 1, A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art & Scandal, The Intersecting Worlds of Emly Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Marin Johnson Heade (@ Twain)

Call (860) 522-9258, extension 317, or e-mail krounds@stowecenter.org to commit to an evening. (They need a head count.) Free.

Made possible by The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, The Connecticut Humanities Council and The Mark Twain House & Museum.

Editor's Note: As development of our news network continues with the new upgrades for image quality and other improvements, our interconnected community keeps on "Reporting On All Things Country, Boardroom to Barnyard™" - here's a sneak peek.

For stories on farm visits, business and feed and much more, visit Moo Dog Press or "Knitting Up Life" at Moo Dog Knits.

Mark Twain, Life and Times Celebrated

Next year, 2010, marks the centennial of Mark Twain's death (Samuel Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri Nov. 30, 1835.) Around the country plans are starting for events and celebrations around the author.

Windham Fabrics, a family-run business in New Jersey, has based a collection of fabrics on Mark Twain's life and decorative arts contained in his home in Hartford.

Working with The Mark Twain House & Museum, the fabrics are inspired by artifacts and the museum collection, a hand written manuscript and illustrations from early editions of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

For more information visit www.baumtextile.com. A store locator listing is online.