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Twain and Hartford

Twain and Hartford . Kennelly Allerton . What Was Nook Farm?. "The vibrant neighborhood that would become Nook Farm began in 1853, when brothers-in-law John Hooker and Francis Gillette purchased 140 acres of pasture and woodland from William Imlay .”

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Twain and Hartford

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  1. Twain and Hartford Kennelly Allerton

  2. What Was Nook Farm?

  3. "The vibrant neighborhood that would become Nook Farm began in 1853, when brothers-in-law John Hooker and Francis Gillette purchased 140 acres of pasture and woodland from William Imlay.” • “Bordered on the east by Sigourney Street, the north by Farmington Avenue and on the west and south by the Park River where it made a large curve, or nook, the Imlay property was appropriately called Nook Farm.” • “Hooker and Gillette kept the name for their developing community.”

  4. “Over the years, as Hooker and Gillette sold parcels of land to relatives and friends, a community of reformers and activists grew.” • “Some were politicians; others were journalists, feminists, spiritualists, painters, or writers. All of them worked in their own ways to make a positive difference in their worlds. Their accomplishments, activities, and easy hospitality fascinated the public and brought the neighborhood renown.” • “The buildings of Nook Farm generated as much interest as the residents. Nationally celebrated architects designed many of the houses inn styles that ranged from merely modern to radically unconventional."

  5. “One of the parcles of land that Hooker and Gillete sold, was to Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon.” • “In Twains eyes it was a group of houses in the woods, and he quickly found that that there was a very appealing environment with friendly open neighbors, which made him, and his family very comfortable there.” • “They first rented the house on Nook Farm from the Hooker family. Most of his neighbors were also wrighters and were interested” • “They live there till their oldest daughter died in that house, and they could not continue to live there after 1896.”

  6. How Did Living In Hartford Shape/ Affect Twain?

  7. Living In Hartford affected Twain, because he felt as though he was apart of a community, with a number of other righters. • This was also a very Fortuitous even, and literary, almost like moving in with other righters that share his interest of publication, and literary works. • Twain also thought of Hartford as a fresh start, a community that was growing, bustling, and was know as being a center of culture at that time

  8. What role did reverend Joe Twitchelle play in twains life? • “Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell (November 30, 1838 - December 20, 1918), writer and pastor, was Mark Twain's closest friend for over forty years.” • “They met at a church social after the Civil War when Hopkins was pastor of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, his only pastorate for almost 50 years.” • “Reverend Twichell performed Twain's wedding and christened his children, and counseled him on literary as well as personal matters for the rest of Twain's life. A profound scholar and devout Christian, he was described as "a man with an exuberant sense of humor, and a profound understanding of the frailties of mankind.”

  9. “Then the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford came forward to deliver the prayer. Associated with the dead author from the middle and happiest part of his life, the minister who performed the marriage that brought so much happiness into Mr. Clemens's life and lived to hold the funeral services of not only the wife, but of three of the children born of the marriage, it was no wonder that when he came to deliver a prayer at the death of his friend his voice should fail him. Throughout the short service he had sat with bowed head to conceal the fact that tears had found their way to the surface. Now he made a determined effort to control himself, and finally was able to say what he had to say.”

  10. Work Cited • "Stowe's Hartford Neighborhood, Nook Farm." HarrietBeecherStowe's Hartford Neighborhood, Nook Farm. HarrietBeecherStowe Center. Web. 1 Apr. 2012. <http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/nook_farm.shtml>. • "Mark Twain's Missippi." Mark Twain's Mississippi: Video. Mark Twain's Mississippi. Web. 1 Apr. 2012. <http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain/video.html>. • "Steamboat Times." Steamboat Times - Mark Twain Friends. Steamboat Times, 2007. Web. 1 Apr. 2012.http://steamboattimes.com/mark_twain_friends.html. • "LAST GLIMPSE HERE OF MARK TWAIN." Mark Twain's Funeral. The New York Times. Web. 1 Apr. 2012. <http://www.twainquotes.com/19100424a.html>. • "Mark Twain's Missippi." Mark Twain's Mississippi: Video. Mark Twain's Mississippi. Web. 1 Apr. 2012. <http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain/video.html>.

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