MUSKEGON, MI - Two seven-foot painted structures were installed in downtown Muskegon in commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the making of world-renowned doll, Raggedy Ann on Wednesday, July 1.
Raggedy Ann is a simple and unpretentious doll with button eyes and a tender smile. Not bad for over 100 years old. You won't find her in many stores these days. Her old-fashioned rag-doll look of ...
Walk into any toy store and the sheer number of dolls you can buy is amazing. But before American Girl dolls or Disney princess dolls, before even Cabbage Patch dolls and Barbie, there was one doll ...
I haven’t written about Raggedy Ann for several years, but hers is an interesting tale. The story goes that Raggedy Ann began as a faceless rag doll found by a little girl named Marcella in her ...
The classic Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are heading for the bigscreen as a musical comedy via a producing partnership between The Gotham Group and puppeteer Kevin Clash. Project aims to take the dolls ...
I admit that I chose this week’s column topic in part for the nostalgia and in part due to the fun that the internet is having over the recent travels of the purportedly haunted doll, Annabelle, that ...
I was shocked to discover that my granddaughters, ages 13, 11 and 9, have no idea about the Raggedy Ann doll. Her name was in a story that one of them was reading, and she asked about the doll. I must ...