Ice Cream!

On Thursday, July 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., neighbors from near and far can come to The Mark Twain House & Museum to enjoy lawn games, live music, hot dogs, discounted tours -- and, of course, a refreshing cup of ice cream donated by the UConn Dairy Bar, Shady Glenn, and Royal Ice Cream.


This is the fourth year for The Mark Twain House & Museum Ice Cream Social, which always draws a good crowd. After the social, at 7:00 p.m., there will be a preview screening of the ocumentary Linotype: The Film, a look at the unusual way printing technology changed in Mark Twain's day and after.

The Ice Cream Social this year benefits from a special grant for free programs fromThe First Niagara Bank Foundation.

The event includes:

Steampunk at Mark Twain

This week we checked out the Steampunk Ball and exhibit at the Mark Twain House. While Steampunk was a mystery to us, it turned out to be pretty cool in a mid 1990's Marilyn Manson/Nine Inch Nails type of way. It was quite a night at the Twain House as Sad City friend Craig The Porn Star joined us in a ghost tour, the Steampunk exhibit and the Steampunk ball. Pics weren't allowed on the tour and the ball was too dark for good pics but check out more of the exhibit after the jump.

Twain House Weekend; Steampunk and Ghost Tours

Image courtesy of Twain House

It's shaping up to be a huge weekend for our neighbors at the Mark Twain House. Fresh off the success of "Tapping into Twain" a couple weeks ago, the folks at the Twain House continue to bring exciting events to the neighborhood. First every Friday and Saturday during October the Twain House gives Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours of the possibly haunted house. Sad City will be joining WCCC's Craig The Porn Star on the tour this Friday evening. Now we at Sad City don't exactly believe in ghosts (to be fair we don't particularly believe in anything) but we will chug a few Ecto Coolers, strap on our proton packs and go along for the tour.

Twain Tapped

Image courtesy of our good friends at the Hartford Party Starters Union

While we always lament the end of summer the coming of fall does bring a few good things, notably post season baseball, (other peoples) Halloween costumes and an endless slew of Octoberfest events. How October became a month full of beer drinking events we don't know, but we do know what they say about gift horses.

Friday we attending our first Octoberfest event of the season, Tapping Into Twain at the Mark Twain House. Mark Twain totally seems like a Sad City type of guy. He enjoys Hartford. He enjoys a drink now and again. He liked shooting some pool. He hated golf. We can't imagine what it would have been like to hang around with Twain in Hartford. Wait, yes we can and at one time we did try to imagine such a thing.

Moronic reality TV show Ghost Hunters will air its second episode shot at the Mark Twain House on Wednesday on the SyFy Network (Comcast channel 52, 217HD in Hartford). For those who want to go out and watch the episode there will be a viewing party at Woody's Hot Dog & Fish Tank at 915 Main St. The episode will be spin-off show "Ghost Hunter Academy" in which aspiring paranormal investigators are sent home one by one. This show, like The Bachelorette, is one of those reality shows where you would prefer to find yourself on because your a fame whore rather than believing in the premise of the show. That said, I REALLY hope someone reads my post!

Some real ghost hunting: