In the footsteps of Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Noah Webster
Mark Twain was ahead of his time - so much so that 140 years ago, he had a man cave. On the third floor of the house where he lived when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Twain drank, smoked and played billiards with his friends.
These days, smoking is not allowed, but it's been otherwise restored to perfection, complete with pool table and windows bearing the crests Twain designed - crossed pool cues and pipes surrounded by drinking vessels.
Twain's house in Hartford, Conn., looks just as it might have when he called it home from 1874 to '91 - albeit with a parking lot, gallery and gift shop.
Some people on a family vacation will go to a cultural institution for a little variety. Me, I decided to visit three nearby writers'
