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New England by the Numbers
Mark Twain
by Daniel Allen
Mark Twain
17
years Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) spent in his beloved Hartford home (1874-1891)
6
books Twain published while living there: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
7
years Twain worked on Huck Finn
$45,000
total cost of the land, house, and interior decoration
$50,000-$55,000
money raised from annual used-book sale sponsored by The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut, a library Twain founded when he moved there in 1908
$16.5 million
cost to build the museum center in 2003
1954
year Massachusetts-reared actor Hal Holbrook debuted his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight!
2,000-plus
number of Mark Twain performances Mr. Holbrook has given since, including a third Broadway show in 2005
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