Putting on my Mark Twain House publicity hat, just to reassure everyone: The Mark Twain House & Museum does have a full roster of events planned for 2010, and like many of our colleagues is waiting for various funders to say we can do them. For starters, we're participating in the Hartford Public Library's Big Read program, their book next year being The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. And Hartford Stage is putting on a new dramatic version of the book. There'll be exhibits on on architecture, on Tom, and on Huck. Plenty more to come, so watch this space, and of course Cindy Lovell's terrific 2010 site. And let me add to the collective paeans for Barb Snedecor. I don't think I've ever attended an event that was so seamlessly and deftly organized. Steve Courtney Terryville, CT 06786