Fantastic guided tour
The other day, I visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford, Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular book of the eighteenth century after the Bible. She was the daughter of a Calvinist minister and a passionate abolitionist who counted Sojourner Truth among her close friends. The house is located in Farm Nook on a bend along the riverbank. We signed up for a guided tour ($9 per adult) and, while we waited, watched a film about the history of slavery in the United States and the meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe and President Lincoln, who greeted her by saying, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." He was talking, of course, about the civil war which was sparked by the government's desire to end slavery. Although the book was hugely popular and resulted in the creation of lots of merchandise, Harriet never saw much money and continued on to write more than 20 different novels.
