The Lobster Pot hosted two portrait events during the summer. which included garden tours and a gallery walk & talk. Artist Susan Boone Durkee gave a talk and a demonstration about portrait painting techniques and procedures.

The Lobster Pot is once again involved with a Documentary filming. PBS/Discovery Channel Director and Producer James Nicoloro is creating a Documentary, “The Redding Mark Twain” which reveals the events and relationships of Mark Twain’s last years in Redding Connecticut. I painted a portrait of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain’s social companion, secretary and household manager. In the Documentary I develop her portrait as her character is being revealed in the film…great fun and a novel idea! A lot of the filming so far has been in and around the gardens of The Lobster Pot and other sites in Redding. To see more about this upcoming Documentary visit: https://jamesnicoloro.wordpress.com/

In the late summer, Laura Skandera Trombley visited The Lobster Pot. Laura Trombley is the president of Pitzer College, an internationally renowned Mark Twain scholar and author. As a Mark Twain scholar and author, she has written dozens of scholarly articles and penned several books, the latest, Mark Twain's Other Woman, was published by Knopf in 2010.. While at The Lobster Pot Laura was interviewed by Documentary Film Producer and Director, James Nicoloro, for his upcoming Mark Twain Documentary, “The Redding Mark Twain”

Laura Skandera Trombley and James Nicoloro