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Once Twain found his calling as a writer and lecturer, success came quickly and abundantly. He may have been a critic of the Gilded Age, but he wasn't shy about taking on the trappings of a successful man. When the publishing royalties came pouring in, he built in Hartford, Conn., a big, ornate, financially burdensome house in a style that's been called "steamboat Gothic." It has been fully open to the public since 1974, but recently it has run into serious financial difficulties. A few years ago the group that maintains the house added an expensive visitors' center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...longer have a moral compass.' DARYL ROBERTS, police chief of Hartford, Conn., after security cameras captured dozens of witnesses driving past a 78-year-old hit-and-run victim without stopping to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...heir to the A&P grocery chain, Huntington Hartford inherited a fortune but spent most of his life squandering it. Once one of the world's richest people, Hartford sought renown as an arbiter of taste, but the diverse endeavors he bankrolled--including an art museum he conceived as a response to the spread of modernism, an ill-fated stage adaptation of Jane Eyre and a handwriting institute--were mainly spectacular failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...been slighted [April 21]. I will state the point again: scientists are uncomfortable with I.D. because it is a warm, fuzzy belief unprovable by any scientific method. Maybe Stein would like to propose a scientific methodology to prove I.D. It would have to be a doozy. Roy Senn, New Hartford, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...been slighted [April 21]. I will state the point again: scientists are uncomfortable with I.D. because it is a warm, fuzzy belief unprovable by any scientific method. Maybe Stein would like to propose a scientific methodology to prove I.D. It would have to be a doozy. Roy Senn, NEW HARTFORD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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