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This is Sara Peattie – puppet builder and liberal political activist. In her subterranean workshop – known as the Puppet Free Lending Library – imagination reigns supreme. Her cast of characters appears regularly on the stage of world opinion at political demonstrations. They include many breeds of puppets from small hand-held creatures to “backpack” characters that ride atop a person’s shoulders to giant figures mounted on scaffolding and carried by several people so that they tower over crowds in parades and political demonstrations. It’s a soundless gang that populates her workshop; yet the intensity of color and expressions worn by Ms. Peattie’s creatures fairly screeches with meaning. A butterfly with a 10-foot wingspan, symbolizing the dangers of genetic engineering and used for biotech protests in several Northeastern cities, has alighted on the floor. Propped against a wall is a gigantic black box puppet – once trampled by a crowd in an antiwar rally – that displays the Iraq war death toll. Dragons and six-eyed demons dwell alongside mylar robots and polyester goddesses. Black cats wear war paint, while maids-a-milking conspire in a corner. “With puppets, anything can happen,” Peattie writes about the craft on the Puppeteers’ Cooperative Website. “A space people walk through every day … suddenly becomes other[,] and people see that they can make anything they want of their own homes. Puppets can make thoughts real.”