In the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, she realizes she is ruined for meat.
The person she loves doesn’t eat it and what if they kiss? She wants to be pure in her mouth.
Vent Haven has four puppets that visitors may handle to try their hand at ventriloquism, but the remainder of the exhibits are not for handling. Parents may want to consider if children under age seven are old enough to enjoy the museum.
The collection began when William Shakespeare Berger purchased his first figure, Tommy Baloney, in 1910. Then he purchased another. And another. One open mouth asked for another and another until four rooms of his house were full of open mouths.
He married, had a son, and that son had a son, but still William Shakespeare Berger did not want his vast collection of dummies to be scattered or thrown away. So many puppets and no more hands to fill them. Tommy Baloney’s face was full of nicks and smudges and greasy fingerprints by this time. William Shakespeare Berger wanted his puppets to be safe.
So many mouths said: Oh.
In Kentucky, you can find Confederate flags displayed on a car window. In Connecticut, you can find Confederate flags hung over a garage. On mugs, on t-shirts, bumper stickers. Even on a neckerchief for a dog.It is 2019 and if you still don’t get that displaying a Confederate flag—the flag of people who wanted to keep black people slaves—you’re just a crackalacka treasonous person. Or probably named Chad. Shut your piehole about heritage. If you love to display the Confederate flag, surprise: your heritage is HATE!
Let so many mouths never eat what used to have breath. Let them kiss and kiss and be pure and say only: Oh.
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