SUMMER 2021 Volume 72, No. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

2 MODERNIST MARIONETTE FROM 1918

3 FROM THE EDITOR BY STEVE ABRAMS

4 PUPPETVID3D BY STEVEN WIDERMAN

6 GETTING AHEAD: THE STORY OF LEN AYERS’S MANTELL MANIKINS BY PETER NEWLAND AND PEGGY

10 CREATIVE PUPPETRY AT THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK BY CRAIG MARIN

11 EDNA BLAND, EDUCATOR AND ADVOCATE BY STEVE ABRAMS

12 ON THE FRINGE

17 WHIMSY AND DIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CITY PUPPETS

18 NEWS FROM PUPPETEERS OF AMERICA

19 EUREKA BY NANCY SANDERS

20 YALE STUDY FINDS CHILDREN WITH ASD PAY ATTENTION TO PUPPETS BY MIKE CUMMINGS

21 GUILD CONNECTION BY KURT HUNTER

22 PRESIDENT’S AWARD, PART ONE BY STEVE ABRAMS

28 PUPPET CO. REBORN BY JEFF BRAGG

29 SCENE BETWEEN BY MONICA LEO

30 MILESTONES

32 WHAT’S HAPPENING IN TODAY’S WORLD OF PUPPETRY