The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet
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objclxt
1 hour ago
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> Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library

This is underselling it: it's in a side street off Newbury, where nobody would have any reason to go, with a tiny little door about half the size of all the other doors marked "Puppet Library"[1].

I visited many years ago by complete accident: I was out running with some friends on a Tuesday afternoon, we were going down the public alley because Newbury was heaving, and saw this sign. We wandered in, and...yeah, there's a lot of puppets.

[1]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pa6sTiQ1cFsp2mqcA

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wincy
1 hour ago
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Thanks for that link. I love the sign, it made me laugh.

The sign is hand written, stating:

the

PUPPET

free

LIBRARY

open

TUESDAYS 2-7

so it looks like it’s advertising a puppet free library, as if they had to ban puppets from this particular library.

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semiinfinitely
2 hours ago
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as a child I found puppet exposure disturbing and semi traumatic
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all2
2 minutes ago
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I'm on the opposite end of this spectrum. Puppets are absurd, hysterical, and it used to be a family thing to get together and make puppets every Christmas. I'd try to make the goofiest looking puppet possible. The last one I made has a wide brimmed hat, blond hair, glasses, and the weirdest looking braided mustache. Oh, and ping pong balls for eyes.

It makes me chuckle every time I see it.

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