Webster Walk
Salutes Another Famous American Author
| | Mark Twain | |
Twain started out as a printers apprentice and typesetter, and shared Websters love of letters and language from an especially American point of view. While Webster concentrated on correcting colloquial speech, Twain was intent to record it, helping to create and popularize a distinctively American literary genre. William Faulkner called Twain, the father of American literature.
Largely self-taught, and a voracious reader, he credited public libraries with being his best education. At various times, he worked as steamboat pilot, journalist, lecturer and author. He was also an adventurer, and an inveterate traveller, as well as a keen social observer, and a skilled humorist and satirist.
Many of his famous works went on to become American classics: such as The Adventures of Tom Swayer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, to name a few.
His home, the Mark Twain House and Museum, is open to the public in Hartford. We display here Twains twenty year plan for the improving of spelling in the English language (with apologies to Noah) and a few of his well-known quotations.
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Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music.
Location. 41° 45.626′ N, 72° 44.51′ W. Marker is in West Hartford in Capitol Region, Connecticut. It is on 20 South Main Street. Marker is along the walkway between the Hartford Library and Critter Criterion Cinemas. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: West Hartford CT 06107, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Connecticut River Valley, in Greater Hartford, and in the Knowledge Corridor. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Hartford County and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Korczak Ziolkowski (here, next to this marker); "A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence" (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named "A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence" (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named "A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence" (within shouting distance of this marker); Mark Twain (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Webster Walk (within shouting distance of this marker); The Reverends of First Church West Hartford (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Goodman Green (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in West Hartford.
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