Her words changed the world.

Event Calendar

The Stowe-Twain Experience

05/19/12 - 05/20/12
Weekends only! Tour Harriet Beecher Stowe's home and The Mark Twain House just next door – for one special price! Read More

Call to Action- Public Meeting

05/21/12
Date: Monday, May 21
Time: 10 AM - Noon
Location: Hartford Public Library, Downtown Branch, 500 Main Street,Hartford, CT 06103

Our Goal: To create positive change by taking action together.  Read More

Volunteer Appreciation

05/23/12
4:30-6:00 p.m.
An event to honor all of our wonderful volunteers! RSVP to aroy@stowecenter.org. Read More

Salons at Stowe: Guilty By Race -- Profiling in Connecticut

05/24/12
Recent news reports and events indicate that racial profiling and stereotyping are factors that many citizens face on a daily basis. What are the facts? What can we do to ensure that "walking while black" is not considered to be criminal activity? Read More

Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour

05/25/12
Visit Stowe's home and learn more about the 19th century spiritualism and the paranormal in Hartford. Read More

The Stowe-Twain Experience

05/26/12 - 05/27/12
Weekends only! Tour Harriet Beecher Stowe's home and The Mark Twain House just next door – for one special price!
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Big Tent Award Celebration

06/05/12
5:30– 9:30 PM
Featuring 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon Reed
Award event for Student Stowe Prizes, at the Stowe Center. Fundraising ticketed event Read More

Inspiring Action: Real Stories of Social Change

06/05/12
3:00 - 5:30 PM
Networking Fair and Public Program with the Student Stowe Prize winners; Jess Remington (One Work Youth Project) and other guests.
To be held at Immanuel Church on Woodland St.
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Community Open House

06/09/12
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Celebrate Harriet Beecher Stowe's 201st birthday! Free admission all day, horse and carriage rides and, of course, birthday cake! Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Emancipation Narratives

06/14/12
5 – 6:30 PM
Emancipation Narratives, a selection of works by Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson and Harriet Jacobs
Nook Farm Book Club, at the Stowe Center  Read More

Them: Images of Separation

06/14/12 - 09/30/12
"THEM: Images of Separation," is a traveling exhibition from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State that showcases items from popular culture used to stereotype different groups. Read More

Riverwood Poetry Festival

06/24/12
2-4PM
Poetry readings in the Stowe Visitor Center Read More

Connecticut’s Historic Gardens Day

06/24/12
Noon – 4 PM
Activities on the Stowe Center grounds.
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Nook Farm Book Talk - Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

07/12/12
Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain by Hal Holbrook, at the Twain Museum Center Read More

Women & Their Music

07/14/12
1 – 4 PM
Outdoor music on the Stowe Center Lawn. Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - The Help

09/13/12
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, at the Stowe Center Read More

Salons at Stowe: September 27, 2012

09/27/12
Join us for the fall season of Salons at Stowe -- a lively discussion you won't want to miss. Read More

Salons at Stowe

09/27/12
Topic to be announced Read More

Nook Farm Book Talk - Election

10/04/12
Election by Tom Perrotta, at the Twain Center Read More

Salons at Stowe

10/11/12
Topic to be announced.  Read More