Mister Rogers’ Day sweaters

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Jadzia, Ludi, Josie and Josh model their sweaters (and poncho) for “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Day.

We also watched two episodes of the older girls’ choosing: “Windstorm in Bubbleland” (opera) and a recent episode featuring author Eric Carle and a fortune cookie man in Make-Believe.

If you haven’t already tried it, you should “take my Mister Rogers quiz”:http://interact.stltoday.com/blogzone/multimedia-archive/entertainment/2010/03/mister-rogers-neighborhood-quiz/!

Also, here are some links to articles from several news outlets:

* “‘Mister Rogers’ still looms large in Pittsburgh”:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17pittsburgh.html

* “Fred Rogers’ ideas celebrated at conference, museum events”:http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10078/1043992-53.stm

* “Volunteer Day Promoted to Honor Mister Rogers”:http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10148531

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood

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Today I posted my second multimedia project for stltoday.com. It’s a “trivia quiz”:http://interact.stltoday.com/mds/entertainment/html/3040 about Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

The show has always had a special resonance for me. Long after I had stopped watching it, bits of it remained strongly in my memory.

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