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)