They are perhaps the two best-known puppeteers in Baltimore, and yet most folks have never heard of them.

Michael Lamason, 52 — who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania and had never seen a puppet show — and Bill Haas, 51, are co-directors of the Black Cherry Puppet Theater in the Hollins Market neighborhood off of Lombard Street in southwest Baltimore.

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