Here is Kristin Hunt at The Washington Post: In April 1970, members of Mississippiās newly formed State Commission for Educational Television met to discuss Big Bird and Cookie Monster. āSesame Streetā had debuted on public TV the previous November, and […]
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“Sing a Song!” Bob McGrath and American music
I lost myself last night following every link in historian Kathryn Ostrofsky‘s essay on the late Sesame Street actor Bob McGrath. (It was a wonderful distraction from grading blue books!) Ostrofsky shows how McGrath brought “old music” to a new […]