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 celebrity!


> 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)