Published in Montgomery County Sentinel Newspaper (April Fool's Day Edition)

Chris Dunmire's Peanut Pets Project Published in Print

Peanut Pets Make a 'Peculiar Pet' in Maryland
Posted March-28-2006
Published in the Montgomery County Sentinel (03/23/06)
In a snacking twist of fate, the youth services director of the Maryland (USA) Montgomery Sentinel newspaper contacted me for permission to use my Nutty Peanut Pet Project in their Learning Links (kids' pages), which are given free to teachers to use in their classrooms. The director thought the pets would be "fun and foolish to include in their 'April Fool's Day' issue."

Eager to enter the ajar door of published newsprint notoriety, I sent my googly-eyed Peanut Pets off to publication (pictured above). Would it be appropriate to say that I've cracked the shell to new published possibilities? Hmm. I wonder if the eyes of the googly-eyed gods are upon me. •

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