Joseph Cashore checks out his marionettes prior to a Sunday night performance at New Bremen High School as part of the Lock One Community Arts season. Cashore has a cast of 20 marionettes he has created including Old Man, foreground, the meditative Ramul and Maestro Janos Zelinka. Below, a loving mother and her infant spring to life with the aid of 24 strings manipulated by Cashore, who not only makes the marionettes but adds the lifelike faces and creates the costumes.