Jon Stone

Jon Stone was the first head writer for Sesame Street and one of the show's principal directors and producers for over twenty-four years-first introduced the Muppets to Joan Ganz Cooney.
"Jim and Jane used to bring the kids to our house in Vermont from time to time, and on one of those occasions, Jim decided to give skiing a try. So we took him over to Stratton Mountain and got him outfitted, and I walked him over to the bunny hill. Later, Jim became an accomplished skier, applying himself to the task with his characteristic determination; but this morning, like every other first-day skier, he spent a lot of time on his backside (and frontside) until he was absolutely covered in snow. It was all over his clothes, in his beard, in his hair; and its this image that sticks in my memory: this skinny snowman coming at me down the gentle little hill, standing straight up, arms straight out to the sides, poles dangling. I remember telling him that he looke like Christ of the Andes, and we both sat down in the snow, laughing. I don't know why we though it was so funny, but it was."

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