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Ready Set Explore: Be My Neighbor Day

By Staff

143 Day of Kindness in PA

Mr. Rogers is remembered today in PA

By Ed Arke/WITF

Joanne Rogers, widow of TV’s famed Mister Rogers, dies at 92

Joanne Rogers died Thursday, according to the Fred Rogers Center. No cause of death was given. The center called her “a joyful and tender-hearted spirit, whose heart and wisdom have guided our work in service of Fred’s enduring legacy.”

By The Associated Press

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Across Mister Rogers’ actual neighborhoods, his faith echoes

If you were a Pittsburgh kid watching him in his 1970s and 1980s heyday, you believed that his neighborhood was in our midst, and that he was in there somewhere.

By The Associated Press

‘Beautiful Day’ director on Mister Rogers’ ‘radical notion’: Telling kids the truth

"He wasn't afraid of any of the hardest parts of childhood or talking about the most uncomfortable things."
By NPR