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Many of the ventriloquists whose dummies and puppets are among the almost 1,000 on display are no longer around. But the pint-sized partners still sit, as though waiting for someone to make them ...

Witchcraft While many people believe that making dummies and puppets talk requires magic and witchcraft, Gichen says this is not so. Instead, it's an art and science that requires passion and talent.

Their collection holds about 1,000 dummies and puppets along with a massive library, written archive, photograph collection, and magazines, publications, all the kinds of things that go along with ...

Entertainment What Do 525 Ventriloquists Do at a Convention? Ask Their Dummies ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now ...

Sari Aalto with her dummy at the annual Vent Haven International Ventriloquist Convention in Erlanger, Kentucky, on July 20, 2018. Puppets rule and their masters crave respect for an unappreciated ...

Witchcraft While many people believe that making dummies and puppets talk requires magic and witchcraft, Gichen says this is not so. Instead, it's an art and science that requires passion and talent.

Dummies, puppets, inanimate objects and unsuspecting bystanders become part of the wild world Trefzger and her comical partners create.

The Johnson County Public Library is starting a free after school puppet club for kids ages 7-14. Activities will include ...

Diehl started with puppets in the sixth grade and has done puppetry for about 20 years. She and her husband, Rob, are co-pastors in the children's ministry at the church. They moved last year from ...