Happy Birthday, Sesame Street!
by Donelle Blubaugh One of the chief pleasures of working for PBS is being in a position to help Big Bird, Elmo, Grover and the rest of the gang find their way from Sesame Street to homes and preschools. I was 13 when the series launched 40 years ago and I was more conscious of Batman and the Beatles than of Joan Ganz Cooney’s television miracle, but in the course of time the show and its characters took up residence in my heart and mind as if they had always been there–just as they did…
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