![Jerry Nelson performs the Count, Sesame Street, late 1970s.](https://jessicamaxstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/jerrycount-150x150.jpg)
Jerry Nelson performs the Count, Sesame Street, late 1970s.
Thinking of Jerry Nelson, who would have been 82 years young today. Here’s the biographical essay I wrote about him,
“The Count Writes a Haiku”. Grateful for all his work to make “millions of people happy”.