Abolitionists Gone Wild
Mark Twain has an impressive pad. It is a beautiful mansion that shows off Twain�s remarkable personality and influence in the literary world. It was very ornate but not overdone. It was a good study in architecture and artistry of his time.
If I were Harriet Beecher Stowe I would have hid my bong a little better, but that is just what I would do. The Beecher Stowe house had not one but two, �make your own drugs� kits. They used to do things like drink arsenic to make their skin fashionably pale and that was just one of the nearly fifty chemicals they would mix to see what would happen. There really was a couple of bong looking things around the house. It brings a new meaning to hosting a New England clambake. I can just imagine Harriet Beecher Stowe getting high with Mark Twain, riding around in one of his carriages, shouting crazy things out the window. Abolitionists Gone Wild.
The tour guide also let us in on that Harriet Beecher Stowe was a home wrecker in explaining how she added the Stowe onto the Harriet Beecher. Apparently she killed off her husband�s first wife after �helping� them during a cholera epidemic. Remember: I told you Harriet Beecher Stowe played with arsenic? Exactly. She killed the first Mrs. Stowe and stole her husband THEN named one of her daughters after the woman she killed. Audacity.
If you enjoy a good intrigue, you will also enjoy a trip to see the home of Harriet Beech Stowe.
