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The Magical Neighborhood of Mister Rogers

By ELLEN HANDLER SPITZ

Driving to campus a few weeks ago to meet with my class called "Art and the Cultures of Childhood," I heard on National Public Radio that Fred Rogers, at the age of 74, had died of stomach cancer.

Fred Rogers's contribution to the lives of the children fortunate enough to have encountered his television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood...

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