Monument Monday – A Monument to the Child in All of Us
Jim Henson is best known as the creator of The Muppets, and the PBS television series for children, Sesame Street.
While in high school in the early 1950s, Henson started creating puppets for local television station, WTOP, (now WUSA channel 9) Saturday morning children’s program.
He later attended college at the University of Maryland’s studio arts program in nearby College Park. In his first year, WRC-TV (NBC-4) hired him to create a five-minute puppet show called Sam and Friends, which aired from 1955 to 1961. The puppets Hansen created were the first versions of the Muppets, including a primitive lizard-like …read more
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