LOVELACE MARIONETTE THEATRE I have been fortunate. In the mid-seventies, I moved to Pittsburgh, PA. There, I did a variety of things: working as a carpenter´s helper; repairing toilets and operating a telephone switchboard in a roadside hotel; studying early childhood education at a Penn State branch campus; working as a direct care worker in a center for Severely and Profoundly Retarded Adults who had spent their lives warehoused in large state-run facilities; studying Sociology and Political Science at a Community College; being a VISTA volunteer promoting an Adult Literacy Program; catering rock concerts at the Pittsburgh Civic Center; growing and marketing bean sprouts out of an abandoned brewery; working as a volunteer on the “Mill Hunk Herald” – a grassroots worker writer magazine. And I met Margot Lovelace. Margot was an icon of the Pittsburgh art and theatre scene, founder of the first professional puppet theatre in the United States. In her ear