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From the Children's Museum

Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Author: Mackenzie Carpenter
Date: February 28, 2003


HIS ‘CHILDREN’ REACT: FROM THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

In elementary school classrooms, high school hallways and in other places around the region yesterday, children talked about the man on television who wore the comfortable sweater and spoke with the soft, sing-song voice, the man who was so easy to wake up to every morning, the man who, they said over and over again, was “nice.”

At the Children’s Museum on the North Side, Kelsey Mahoney “age 8 and three quarters” and her best friend Karlie Festa, also 8 (“but I’ll be 9 on Saturday”), took time out from pasting jewelry together to reminisce about Fred Rogers...

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