Mark Twain's Neighborhood: Nook Farm. Connecticut Public Broadcasting, 2002. 54

Mark Twain's Neighborhood: Nook Farm. Connecticut Public Broadcasting, 2002. 54 min.

The video outlines the history of this community from its inception in 1853, when John Hooker and Francis Gillette bought and subdivided the 140-acre farm into residential parcels, through the career turns of its most celebrated neighbors, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, and concludes with the twentieth-century status of the Nook Farm legacy. Stowe and Twain share that stage with writer and newspaper publisher Charles Dudley Warner, Civil War general and Connecticut governor Joseph Hawley, women's rights activist Isabella Beecher Hooker, and minister Twichell, as well as other notable nineteenth-century figures who visited this exceptional community. The history is presented both in light of the leading figures' lives with insights from John Boyer, the Executive Director of the Mark Twain House, and Katherine Kane.