… and feathers and shadows and sex and violence, and all the cool things that make up puppetry: Eileen Blumenthal knows all about them.  I’ve mentioned before how incredibly helpful (and surpassingly fun) her book Puppetry: A World History was to me during the research of Under the Poppy. (And I still read through it for refreshers, and just plain kicks.)

She recently took part in a discussion at UConn with John Bell, where I would dearly have loved to be.  Hey, Detroit Institute of Arts!  We have the Paul McPharlin collection, why can’t we have Eileen Blumenthal here, too?