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Retired Air Force chief makes puppets as hobby
A former Air Force leader now living near New Glarus pursues puppetry as a full hobby. Michael Rudy builds and manipulates puppets, writes skits, and choreographs performances with his wife and daughter, while enjoying life in the Green County community after retiring from O'Hare Field. The Rudys relocated in October 1969 from Elk Grove, Illinois, and settled in a Zentner Road farmhouse, where Rudy maintains a three-sided window puppet studio and leads in the Chicago Puppet Guild.
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Red) Zentner
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