<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of "Java With Maryellen" at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://blogs.courant.com/java/2011/11/mark-twain-and-his-cats-featur.html">http://blogs.courant.com/java/2011/11/mark-twain-and-his-cats-featur.html</a><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><h1 id="page-title" class="asset-name entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Mark Twain And His Cats Featured in "Cat Fancy" Magazine</h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small; line-height: 21px; "><span> </span>"I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">So said <span class="bold"><strong>Samuel Clemens</strong></span>, aka <span class="bold"><strong>Mark Twain</strong></span>, whose love of cats was well known by virtue of his own comments and those of the characters in his many books.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">Now that love of cats, and how it is reflected at his home on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, will be featured in the January issue of "Cat Fancy" magazine.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">Mark Twain House & Museum staffer <span class="bold"><strong>Julia Pistell</strong></span> has written a feature story, "Literary Cat Lover" </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; ">on Twain and his cats, as well as the colony of cats that still reside on the property.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small; line-height: 21px; ">"I've known about Twain's interest in cats for a long time and loved the magazine when I was growing up," explained Pistell. "I reached out to the magazine about a possible story and they said yes."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">Besides tracing Twain's and the role his pet cats played in his life and career, the article also includes a sidebar on Pistell's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">cats, <span class="bold"><strong>Buffalo Bill</strong></span> and <span class="bold"><strong>Soapy Sall</strong></span>, both named after two of the legendary author's cats.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><p class="body" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="2">As far as the upcoming article, Pistell said "I think it brings out a personal side of Mark Twain."</font></p><p class="body" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="2">---------------</font></p><p class="body" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="2"><img src="cid:25942493-299F-4688-B24E-D3F78E149AF8" alt="image.jpeg" id="25942493-299F-4688-B24E-D3F78E149AF8" width="300" height="199" apple-original-width="300" apple-original-height="199"><br></font></p><p class="body" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="2"><img src="cid:5FA3144C-5051-445E-AD18-730330FB6BA8" alt="image.jpeg" id="5FA3144C-5051-445E-AD18-730330FB6BA8" width="300" height="225" apple-original-width="300" apple-original-height="225"></font></p></span></span></font><div><div>------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove that title?"</p><div>- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)</div></span></div></div></div></body></html>