What Will Become of the Mark Twain House & Museum?

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  09.18.08 | 5:49 PM ET

imageIt’s buckling under financial pressure just five years after a $19.5 million, 35,000-square-foot modernist museum devoted to the famous author opened its doors in Hartford, Connecticut, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Tags: North America, United States

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


2 Comments for What Will Become of the Mark Twain House & Museum?

TambourineMan 09.19.08 | 4:21 AM ET

Come on Fed. After AIG, what’s another couple million? Cough it up for Sam Clemens.

Debra 09.19.08 | 5:17 PM ET

Mark Twain is one of the most renowned writer of the 20th century. Even after his death he is an ambassador for US around the world. We should save his legacy and this museum.

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