Dead fish give new life to creative impulses

"Laurena Schultz said the same thing to all the latecomers: 'Come in. Grab a dead fish.'

Ms. Schultz, the teen services librarian at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library, was leading a session of gyotaku, a Japanese method of printing using real fish, as part of the monthly teen activities series at the library last week."

because "'If you go online, you can buy plastic fish, but that seemed to be cheating,' Ms. Schultz said."