Pieter Roos will take over later this summer, looking after a house Twain called a:
“combination Mississippi River steamboat and cuckoo clock.”
Roos disagrees, seeing the house as:
“one of the finest historical house museums in the country,”
and a steward of the writer’s legacy.
Roos comes to Hartford from Rhode Island, where he spent 18 years as the Newport Restoration Foundation’s executive director. He says the property has:
“great subject material.”
He’s referring to the fact that Twain, in addition to being a legendary author, was a character in his own right.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, and moved to Hartford in 1871 with Olivia, his wife. Construction on the Twain house began in 1873, on property adjacent to the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, another famous writer whose house has also been turned into a museum.
Twain split his time between Hartford and a summer house in Elmira, New York, for the next 17 years, during which time he wrote some of his most famous works, including stories of those two rascals, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Roos will begin his tenure on July 5, 2017. Facilities like this can benefit if managers work with brochure printers to create Booklets about the history of such landmarks.
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