Massachusetts is the 6th state of the United States of America.

• Caroll Spinney was born in Waltham, MA in 1933. Caroll attended The Art Institute of Boston's College of Art & Design.

• The Boston Pops orchestra, from Boston, MA, was featured in several Sesame Street productions.

• William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1943.

• John Crichton, the main character of Farscape, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, MA.

• A group of Pilgrim Penguins sing "Alabama Bound" as they land at Plymouth Rock in episode 321 of The Muppet Show.

• In 2005, Professor Grover visited Harvard University in Cambridge, MA for a news conference announcing a new HGSE course, "Informal Learning for Children."

• In the book The Muppets Make Puppets!, the glove puppet Spidey Jones has his birthplace listed as Massachusetts.

• Mary Sawyer Tyler, the real life Mary from "Mary Had a Little Lamb", lived in Sterling, Massachusetts.

• The Muppet Babies coloring book Muppet Babies Visit the Fifty States features Baby Kermit landing on Plymouth Rock.

• Joe Raposo was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1937.