If you’ve seen the early episodes, you may even remember one of Henson’s most famous Muppets appearing on the show: Kermit ... along with learning numbers and letters. In later years, Sesame ...

which introduces various Kermit the Frog segments from Sesame Street, while being interrupted by the Three Little Pigs, who are there because Kermit introduced them twice on Sesame Street News.

Henson was an alumna of the University of Maryland and was a student at the university when he created Kermit. The iconic puppeteer graduated in 1960. A bronze statue of Henson, along with his ...