Nearly every culture throughout time seems to have enjoyed puppet theater of some sort. They can be used for humor or drama, tell stories about the past or the present, or be for children or adults. One of the wonders of puppet theater is that it is many or even all of these aspects at once. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut promotes puppetry as an art form and preserves a collection of more than 2,500 puppets from around the world, along with books,…
