New children's librarian launches puppet loan program. Terrill Covey,Hampton Union Staff Writer. HAMPTON — Cynthia Stosse wants to bring reading to life at Lane Memorial Library.

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But puppets also represent something deeper, Fish continued. “To take a concept that’s abstract and make it concrete — that's so great for our kids,” Fish said.

In this 2008 file photo, puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who voices Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, is interviewed during a break from taping an episode of Sesame Street in New York.

What’s on tap in children’s theater this summer: Puppets and pirates. ... Oversize puppets, also made of cardboard, loom near the seats, and projections and lighting effects seem just as close.

And, of course, there was the sudden, unthinkable death of Henson in 1990 at age 53. The film shows Spinney, in character as Big Bird, at Henson’s memorial service singing “It Isn’t Easy ...