Contact Information and Staff Biographies

Mailing Address:

Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
120 North Main Street
Hannibal, MO 63401

Phone:

(573) 221-9010

FAX:

Main Office: (573) 221-7975
Marketing & Tours: (573) 221-5109
Manager of Gift Shops: (573) 221-7975

Staff:

Interim Executive Director: Dr. Cindy Lovell
cindy.lovell@marktwainmuseum.org

Curator: Henry Sweets
henry.sweets@marktwainmuseum.org

Finance & Gift Shop Manager: Dena Ellis
dena.ellis@marktwainmuseum.org

Education Coordinator: Dr. Cindy Lovell
cindy.lovell@marktwainmuseum.org

Administrative Assistnat: Na On (Mai) Conrad
naon.conrad@marktwainmuseum.org

Biographies:

Henry Sweets, Curator
Henry Sweets received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1971 and a Masters in Education in 1973. He then taught high school science for two years in Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in New Jersey, and two years at Byron High School in Illinois. He next earned a Master of Arts degree in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware in 1978. Sweets came to the Mark Twain Museum in January, 1978, as director, and has been with the museum since 1978. He has edited the museum publication The Fence Painter for 27 years, led workshops and made many presentations on behalf of the museum. Sweets has also served on the local Board of Education since 1992 and serves as president.

Dr. Cindy Lovell, Education Coordinator and Interim Executive Director
Cindy Lovell received a B.A. in Elementary Education and a Masters degrees in Education from Stetson University. She taught elementary school in Florida before earning her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Iowa where she worked at the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. Lovell founded the HATS (High Achieving Talented Students) Program at Stetson University and continues to serve on the HATS advisory board. In 2007 she accepted the position of associate professor at Quincy University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in education and a First Year Experience course on Mark Twain. Her areas of expertise include Mark Twain, curriculum development, writers workshops, gifted education, and teaching English as a new language. She has published two children's novels, Rachel Mason Hears the Sound and Not This Sunday and serves as an editor for the Mensa Research Journal and as a reviewer for Florida Reading Quarterly. 

Museum staff members are available to speak at various functions. Please contact the museum.

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