Mark Twain Exec Departs for Connecticut Museum

HANNIBAL, MO — The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum announces executive director Cindy Lovell has accepted a position at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Conn., as executive director. Lovell will begin her position in Hartford on March 4, 2013. Lovell has served as executive director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum since 2008 and is a tenured associate professor of education at Quincy University. During her time in Hannibal, she has coordinated the Young Authors workshops, writing workshops and co-directed teacher workshops with museum curator Henry Sweets. In 2012, Lovell worked with Missouri congressmen and senators, The Mark Twain House & Museum and other Twain sites to push the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act through Congress. The bill was signed into law Dec. 2012 and will benefit the four major Twain sites when the coins are minted in 2016.