The Puppet Company: Tall Tales

Celebrate our 9th Annual Summer Puppetry Festival -- and our nation’s 250th birthday -- with a show full of American fairytales, folk songs, clever scenery, and a large cast of "bigger than life" puppets! Our puppet host, Clem the singing prospector, will share some great American tunes as he spins stories from our colorful past. Meet: * Ol' Stormalong * Johnny Appleseed * Pecos Bill * John Henry * Paul Bunyan Based on the stories that traveled from coast to coast, these American yarns enchanted immigrants for generations. Are these heroes for real or not? That’s for you to decide. Performance takes place on the lawn outside the library. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park, CA, 94025 About The Puppet Company: The Puppet Company performs at libraries and festivals around California. When not on the road, their productions can be found at Children's Fairyland in Oakland, where Puppet Company founder Randal J. Metz is the Director of the park’s Storybook Puppet Theater, the longest-running children's puppet theater in the United States. Metz is the author of several books, including Enchanted Strings: Bob Baker Marionette Theater, A Century of California Puppetry: How the West was Strung, and Children's Fairyland (Images of America series). About the Summer Puppetry Festival: We’re presenting our 9th Annual Summer Puppetry Festival! Menlo Park celebrates the art of puppetry in its many…