Here’s how you can meet the muppets in real life
Catch Kermit and some behind the scenes pics
Michelle Oliver, Multimedia Journalist, Live in the D, Detroit
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Dearborn – Kermit, Bert, Ernie, Fozzie, Big Bird, those names alone instantly take you to a place in your mind where the Muppets are your friends and taught you lessons as a child you will never forget. Now the man behind “The Muppets,” Jim Henson, is being celebrated at The Henry Ford Museum with his own exhibit.
Host Jason Carr spoke to Kate Morland, the Exhibits Manager at the Henry Ford, to learn more about the exhibit. Sesame Street started in 1969, so for over 50 years The Muppets have been in the public eye. Jim Henson was a large part of that. He started The Muppets before Sesame Street started airing and continuing on through the 70s and 80s.
Driven to Win: Racing in America explores need for speed
Greg Tasker
Almost as soon as the first gas-powered vehicles began sputtering down late 19th-century roads, Americans were pushing the pedal, eager for speed, and competing against one another in horseless carriages.
The first automobile race in the United States occurred on a snowy Thanksgiving Day in Chicago in 1895. The following decade, Barney Oldfield became the first big racing hero. As the 20th century unfolded, car-crazy Americans began racing up mountains Pikes Peak across Salt Flats Bonneville and around gravel and tar tracks in Indianapolis and beyond.
The history of auto racing in the United States, along with the personalities, cars, culture and innovations, is explored in a new, permanent exhibit, “Driven to Win: Racing in America” presented by General Motors, opening this month at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn. Believed to be the first comprehensive exhibit cov