FRIENDS, Let us [pick a phrase] challenge plead with implore beseech entreat encourage ask inspire entreat urge beg guide request exhort you to contact five (5) people you have not already contacted to join in our Pepsi Grant voting. Over the weekend we moved up to #13. That was due to many friends voting often all weekend long. We need to break into the top ten this week. To do so we need YOUR help. 1. Continue your voting, 2. Encourage your friends to continue, or to start, voting, 3. Find some new voters to get started. We need to reach #2 or #1 to receive the grant. Good suggestions have come in to us on how to get more people involved. If you have any suggestion at all, send it along. We have not thought of everything. You can just highlight, copy and paste this information into emails to friends The Mark Twain Museum is in the running for a Pepsi grant to help complete the restoration of the Becky Thatcher House. The grant is determined by total votes received during December. One can vote once a day by each of three methods. VOTING IS EASY: 1) Text Pepsi at 73774 with this numeric message: 104141 - and/or 2) Vote online at http://www.refresheverything.com/savemarktwain - You must SIGN IN before voting (lower left corner in the blue bar). Pepsi does not send out spam or anything else, but you do need to register your email with them in order to vote. After signing in, vote with the link provided here, or by searching for "Mark Twain" in the search box at the top of the page. (NOTE: If you have more than one email address, you can register them and vote more than once online.) - and/or 3) You can also vote through your Facebook account. (A Facebook icon is provided on the Pepsi sign-in page at http://www.refresheverything.com/savemarktwain see the see the left corner.) We appreciate your votes and please encourage everyone else you can to join us in bringing this grant to Hannibal. Henry Sweets, Curator Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum