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Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. He derived the property's name from the short story " Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven ". The building was destroyed in a 1923 fire.
The iconic film of Mark Twain walking in front of Stormfield, his house in Redding Connecticut, where he would later die. TFG Film & Tape has performed a dig...
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Jan 9, 2024 · The replica Tuscan villa, known as "Stormfield" on Mark Twain Lane in Redding, replaced Twain's original house that was destroyed in fire after his death.
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The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who acc...
Feb 14, 2013 · Why, Stormfield, a man like you, that had been active and stirring all his life, would go mad in six months in a heaven where he hadn’t anything to do. Heaven is the very last place to come to rest in,—and don’t you be afraid to bet on that!”
Jan 7, 2008 · The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp, and the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and Moses, whom, according to Twain, become as distant to most people in heaven as living celebrities ...
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The History of Stormfield. From notes left by Margaret Mooney, former librarian, and Harold Mueller, former board president, of the Mark Twain Library. 1906. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was living in New York City in 1906, at 21, Fifth Avenue.
