A puppet festival featuring a wizard, dragon and goblin takes place this weekend. Now in its 11th year, Beverley Puppet Festival runs from Friday to Sunday.

The original Kermit the Frog, his body created with an old dull-green coat and his eyes made of pingpong balls, has returned home to the nation’s capital, where the puppet got his start.

Description (Brief) This Kermit the Frog puppet was created by Jim Henson in 1955 for Sam and Friends. It is the first Kermit puppet, and it is made from Jim Henson’s mother’s old spring coat and a ...

A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half, according to a statement from the university. Henson died in 1990.

Jim Henson with his Kermit the Frog in 1988. Henson's widow is donating some of his early puppets, including the original Kermit, to the Smithsonian. ((Associated Press)) The original Kermit the ...

This Kermit the Frog puppet was created by Jim Henson in 1955 for Sam and Friends. It is the first Kermit puppet, and it is made from Jim Henson’s mother’s old spring coat and a pair of Jim’s blue ...