Ventriloquist Del Burkholder performs with several characters, among them the outlaw Buzzard Brothers. I built the two figures above, Joe and Ike. Clinton Detweiler made Abe Buzzard who sits between his two brothers in the photo at left. Del commissioned a seamstress to design and sew the costumes they're wearing. These boys perform as part of Del Burkholder Ministries, an evangelical outreach to prisons. Says Del, "I truly believe there is a strong healing to the heart in the medicine of laughter". Del and the bandit Buzzard Brothers bring lots of levity to their audiences.
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