CREATIONS OF A TOWERING MIND From: The Boston Globe | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: BARBARA HALL | Copyright 2002 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Tucked in a cavern of the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street, under lock and key, lie an elegant pink-and-green dragon, a peg-leg pirate, a rabbit, an Afghan hound, an aqua-hued bird, and an "ice demon."

Most are about a foot tall.

All are marionettes built by William Addison Dwiggins (1880- 1956), who used physics principals - and more strings than usual - in making his creations move fluidly.

Dwiggins biographer Dorothy Abbe, in a 1974 BPL lecture, described her fr...

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