This was Fred Rogers' sweater.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fred Rogers' Neighbors: A Carnegie Mellon Story
This was Fred Rogers' sweater.
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This was Fred Rogers' sweater.
This was Fred Rogers' sweater.
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We don’t have shows like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood on TV anymore. Shows today are toilet humor comedy for the most part. There are a great number of shows on PBS and I have always enjoyed seeing different shows on topics that I can relate to without a political bent or any type of hidden agenda. I grew up watching this show. I never knew that it was filmed right here in Pittsburgh until I actually moved to Pittsburgh to attend CMU. While the history of the program and its connection to Pittsburgh is great, I really like the behind the scenes stories. This article is full of heartwarming moments that these people had with Fred and the show and they will cherish them all the days. It is stories like these that really cement the connection that this show had to Pittsburgh and articles like this one that allow us a glimpse into not just the past, but into the creation of the story that started it all. I am forever thankful of growing up with Mr. Rogers Neighborhood on my TV all the time. I wish children today had these same types of shows. I feel that the world would be a different place if Fred was still around.
I love Mr. Rogers. I have never seen the tv show as a child but recently with the "Won't You Be My Neighbor" documentary, I was introduced to what a kind man Fred Rogers is. Seeing to know that kindness is what everyone needs, Mr Rogers wanted to instill any kind of kindness to anyone and everyone. This is why I love Mr Rogers and what he stands for. It is great to see how Carnegie Mellon has helped Mr Rogers out as well and his whole tv show. I also love to hear how Mr Rogers has benefitted those around him including the Carnegie Mellon alumni who have worked with him. It is really inspiring to know that the Mr Rogers studio is right across campus and to know everything Mr Rogers created for the benefit of children and everyone was just in one studio, doing his best to give the world kindness and a smile to listen to and to learn from.
-Pablo Anton
It really warms my heart to read all these articles about how much good Mister Rogers did for the Pittsburgh community. When my dad was going to school here about 30 years ago, he ran into Mister Rogers on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. He stopped Mister Rogers, introduced himself and they had a quick chat. A handful of years later, he was passing through the city again and happened to see Mister Rogers in passing. He ended up doubling back and stopping Mister Rogers again, and started to say “I do not know if you remember me or not, but we briefly met a few years…,” to which Mister Rogers interrupted him with “Paul! Yes I remember you, how have you been?” There is something unbelievably lovely about the way this man way, and I think it has to do with how genuine his kindness was all the time. Rae Gold is right when she says that we could use more kind people like this.
This article is so sweet. I have always loved Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and I spent a lot of my childhood watching reruns of this beautiful show. It is so lovely to see how connected the Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon communities. It makes my heart so happy to read articles like these. I love art that is made for and by the community. Not enough television/theatre connect to the communities that they are creating in, but when they do, they become even more powerful and intertwined into the people and places who helped create it. A show like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is so wholesome to begin with and to fill it with such a strong community only adds to the power of the show. It makes me so excited to live in this community that has such a strong heart such as this show and Fred Rogers and all the people that he brought joy to.
I love Mr. Rodgers and absolutely everything that he did for Pittsburgh. I remember watching ever episode when I was a kid. His kindness was something that my parents always taught me I should strive for and for a long time I didn’t think it could be real what with all of the “fake” personalities on other shows. It wasn’t until I talked to my Grandmother who was actually from Pittsburgh and had meet him while he was living in the squirrel hill area and hearing her stories about everything that he would do for the neighborhood and for others did I really understand just how good of a person this man was. It's really important that people like this show up more and more in theatre and tv. The arts is a place that needs these kinds of people. TV is full of role models and people that need to set good examples like this.
This was so heartwarming. As was the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. I remember watching the show as a child and I distinctly remember his soft voice and the way he was always so gentle with things, patient and kind. At the time I don't think I appreciated it as much as I probably would now. It was a change of pace from the other shows on television and my young brain didn't really understand why things were "slowed down," for lack of a better word, in his show. It just seemed so unreal that someone was just so full of love and kindness but I'm happy to hear that he was actually as he was in the show. I did not realize that the show filmed in Pittsburgh, better yet, so close to home with Carnegie Mellon. It makes sense that a lot of alums would have worked on it. This city is so rich with history.
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