An Ode To - Part 6
I would cheapen her legacy by attempting to write anything about the life of the person that shaped your life. Yes, Joan Ganz Cooney shaped your life. She helped you to read, she helped you to enjoy numbers, and she helped you dream.
Long before she ever entered your life, she had heard children singing television ad jingles and realized that television was a medium that could change education.
A long journey, the knocking on many doors, trips through Canada and the US talking to educators, and several reports later, Joan found enough money and enough support to create the Children’s Television Workshop. A non profit television production company to create educational programming for children.
Their flagship show: Sesame Street.
The rest, you already know and carry in your minds and hearts.
If you ever get a chance to visit Kaufman studios in Astoria Queens try to schedule a trip to see the Sesame Street set. I stumbled accross it by mistake one day as men loaded gear into the building. Nothing can describe the feeling of seeing this place in person.
Please go rent, or purchase, ‘The World According To Sesame Street’ and be inspired.
Click here for part one of the doc (Youtube has removed the rest of the doc).
Thank you Mrs. Cooney for believing and sharing your dream with us.
