My mom, who also is a professional artist said she never met him, right down the street from the house at the corner of Rutgers and Adelphi, duck pond at the bottom of hill, i spent a lot of my childhood in that house, from Delaware to MD, College Park, my cousin Eric and mom Susan lived here in between marriages...

 and University Park, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets in high school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-form comedy television program on WRC-TV, while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with fellow student Jane Nebel. Henson and Nebel co-founded Muppets, Inc. – now The Jim Henson Company – in 1958, and married less than a year later in 1959. Henson graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics.