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Photos and captions by Kent Rasmussen unless otherwise noted.
The conference actually opened on Wednesday evening, July 22,
with an informal reception in the museum’s gallery.
Foreground: Henry Sweets, the museum’s director,
introducing this year’s “official Tom and Becky” at the reception.
The gallery room is lined with the original illustrations Norman Rockwell
drew for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn editions during the 1930s.
The official Tom and Becky in the foreground, with the unofficial Debra McComb,
Cindy Lovell, and Mike Eckman registering their approval in the background.