On behalf of us in Elmira, we salute our friend Henry Sweets.   Henry has been our hero from the early days of the Elmira Center . He encouraged our mission and we appreciated his.  Because, in large part of Henry Sweets, we are now a network, a true Mark Twain Circle. Congratulations Dear Friend from Elmira, Gretchen Sharlow


 




   He's been a valued friend and advisor throughout








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> On Jan 31, 2017, at 3:43 PM, westbook <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Well said and so true!
> Tim Champlin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Zehr" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:08 PM
> Subject: Henry Sweets, our celebri
> 
>> Twainians:  Henry Sweets, Executive Director of the Mark Twain Boyhood 
>> Home
>> and Museum Foundation in Hannibal, has just been named as "One of the 
>> Fifty
>> Missourians You Should Know" in the latest issue of Ingram's Magazine. 
>> For
>> us, however, the cognoscenti of the Twainian universe, this amounts to
>> belaboring the obvious.
>> 
>> Seriously, however, the mention is a well-deserved tribute to the single
>> most-important individual making possible the survival and growth of one 
>> of
>> the key anchors of Twain lore and studies.  For more than three decades
>> Henry has navigated the Foundation through snags, shoals and rough waters
>> that might have sunk another enterprise and, believe me, with all the
>> constituencies Henry has to deal with on a regular basis while keeping the
>> properties maintained and the expense accounts under control, his is no
>> easy task. Anyone who knows Henry knows that he goes about his duties with
>> a grace and equanimity some of us can only admire from a distance, and I
>> can say that from years of first-hand experience.
>> 
>> Kudos for a well-deserved recognition.
>> I believe I speak for all of us.
>> 
>> Martin Zehr
>> Kansas City, Missouri (#53, after Hal Bush and Tom Quirk)