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Category: Family Entertainment

Interior of the Play Lab at The Strong, Rochester, New York.
  • Announcement

Making Space for Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

This month we opened our new maker space, Play Lab. It’s a bright, busy place,…

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Cattown Parade jigsaw puzzle, about 1900. The Strong, Rochester, New York
  • Culture and Society

Parading Through History

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 8, 2021October 8, 2021

“I love a parade.” Or at least that’s what the rousing chorus of Harry Richman’s…

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  • Announcement

Everyone’s a Winner!

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 30, 2021October 4, 2021

In the summer of 2020, The Strong museum was approached by two veteran producers of…

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  • Culture and Society

Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…

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  • Culture and Society

Demo Day Play?

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on May 27, 2021June 2, 2021

Recent home repair and renovation has made me wonder: is demolition play? On the surface…

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  • Costumes

Let’s Put on a Show!

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on December 3, 2020December 3, 2020

When I was growing up and my sister and I got together with our favorite…

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  • Announcement

Block by Block: Leslie Scott’s Jenga Game (or, in Swahili, Zuia kwa kuzuia: Mchezo wa Jenga wa Leslie Scott)

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 5, 2020

Born in Tanganyika (now the Republic of Tanzania) in East Africa, English national Leslie Scott…

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Marvelous Menagerie, Boston Sunday Globe, 1895. The Strong, Rochester, New York.
  • Culture and Society

Extra, Extra: Read All About Newspapers and Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 29, 2020

For more than a century, the newspaper trade has had to determine creative ways to…

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  • Culture and Society

Name That Tune

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 17, 2020

Like many folks born into musical families, I grew up around people always playing and…

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Star Wars Day: The Action Figures that Almost Weren’t

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 4, 2020May 30, 2020

Not long ago—1977, to be exact—in our very own galaxy, moviegoers witnessed the birth of…

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  • Culture and Society

Playing with Almost Nothing

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 8, 2020June 4, 2020

In these days of lockdowns and social distancing, resourcefulness has become a watchword in so…

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  • Culture and Society

Activity Sets: Playing with Glass, Foil, Plastic, and Goop

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 3, 2020June 4, 2020

Spending most of my time at home with my young children has revealed that I’m…

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  • Culture and Society

Ken Fedesna Donation Documents Video Game Developer and Publisher Midway Games

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 12, 2019

Ken Fedesna, former Executive Vice President and General Manager at video game developers and publishers…

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