Life on a String

Dreamland Theater's puppet exhibition

by Laura Bartlett

posted 7/1/2002

Once upon a time, an artist mom sewed three hand puppets representing her son and two daughters. When one daughter turned fourteen, she took a local rec department class in puppetry. She gleefully holds up her puppet in a grainy 1976 photo in an Ann Arbor News feature about the class. Twenty-five years later, this past January, Naia Venturi opened the Dreamland Theater in Ypsilanti's

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