It is time to start the Summer Reading Puppet shows. I am so excited! I head up to Faith and Lemmon SD to kick off my summer. The Summer Reading Theme this year is “Build a Better World” so my puppet show is “Quest for the Junkyard Dragon”. It is a revision of a show from long ago but it …
Tis May! Tis May!
Happy May Day! May 1st has always been the most special of days. Or at least in the top ten. It is the-really-for-sure-beginning of Spring. Flowers are venturing out helping us shake off the winter blues. When I was a kid there was a very strange piece of equipment on the playground. 364 days of the year it was a …
Memories of our China Trip
I was going over the photos of our trip to China in December of last year. Dick worked with students at Concordia and I helped. A puppet I made there out of a sock and I also got to work with the First graders. This students were very curious about the puppet’s name. They came up with some good ones …
There are some awesome puppeteers out there!
In 1976 the Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppet Theatre packed up our bags and puppets and our excitement and headed to the East Coast. Leonard Running, Claire Scholz, and I were on our way to the bi-centennial Puppeteers of America Festival. This was the wonder of wonder event that gathers puppeteers of all levels of skill and all levels of …
Pretty Little Question with Lang Termes and the Guggley Doos
The Dragons and Lang Termes had a great time at Old Storybook Island in Rapid City playing “Pretty Little Questions”, Lang needed some back up singers and the Guggley Doos were happy to oblige.
Booking underway for Dragons Puppets
The Dragons are getting ready to hit the road! Every summer Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppets( that’s me and a whole lot of my puppet friends) tours public libraries throughout the United States. This year we will be in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico. Every Year the libraries have a Summer Reading Theme. This year the theme …
Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppets, “Cast a Line” Featuring Lang Termes
T-Turtle a troubadour with Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppet Productions lends his musical talent to Lang Termes’ original tune, “Cast A Line” Lang http://www.langtermes.com ,T-Turtle and Markie Scholz spent a glorious afternoon with Dylan and Bonny Fleming of Asio Studio making music in Old Storybook Park in Rapid City South Dakota.
Then and Now
I am going to try to create a record of the Dragons on the road both then and now. Now we are on our way to Issaquah WA for a family reunion and then on to the Oregon Coast. T Turtle came along. It would appear that Coeur d’ Alene Lake was his old stopping grounds. He says he was …
It is amazing to see the Hills recover
It has been a couple of weeks since the Black Hills were hit by too much snow, unbelievable winds topping 70 miles an hour, loss of livestock and in some cases homes. Slowly we have dug out. The broken trees and limbs were everywhere and will be for years to come. But chain saws, wood chippers and hours of back …
A poem I need to read-maybe weekly
My grandmother lived to be 99. She lived in her own apartment until three months before she died. Every time my sister, Claire, and I would visit, we would see quotes and wise sayings stuck up with scotch tape all over the apartment. When she died, my mother took many of the quotes and put them inside cupboards and in …