Snapp Shots: Oakland Children's Fairyland's beloved puppeteer Mahlmann passes on Poet Randall Jarrell wrote, "One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." That was never a problem for Lewis Mahlmann, the master puppeteer at Children's Fairyland from 1967 until his retirement in 2006.
March 26, 2014 - Contra Costa Times