Locals donate time and materials to construct giant puppets for upcoming events around Juneau.
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Tlingit ventriloquism, a way to keep the language alive
Carlton Smith got into ventriloquism fifty years ago as a ten-year-old boy living in Haines. When Smith was bedridden with hepatitis for four months, his father bought him his first puppet from a Sears-Roebuck catalog – a red-headed figure wearing a green suit named Jerry.