To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Observercast

End Of Another Gilded Age

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BY FROMA HARROP Mark Twain was thinking big in 1874 when he moved into his new 19-room mansion in Hartford, CT. The Missouri-born writer was not one to economize. Following the success of Tom Sawyer in 1881, he hired none other than Louis Comfort Tiffany to “do” the interior. It seems fitting that Twain wrote […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.