A Dark Day in the Neigborhood

I'm sad to report that Fred Rogers is taking off his sweater in the big Neighborhood in the sky. He died of complications resulting from stomach cancer. Although he was often the butt of jokes, and he was easy to make fun of, Fred Rogers did his job like no one else could. He had an important mission, he did it well, and it turns out that he was a pretty amazing musician. (In a show I did a long time ago, we did a parody of the song "Won't You Be My Neighbor", which turns out is in a difficult key, has weird and bizarre time changes, and the piano player who was trying to vamp it all said "Fred Rogers is a monster jazz player!" The website for pbskids has some excellent advice on how to tell your kids about Mr. Roger's death. Read Mr. Roger's obituary (list courtesy of news.google.com Fred 'Mister' Rogers dies of cancer at 74 - Hartford Courant - 10 minutes ago Key Events in the Life of Fred Rogers - Seattle Post Intelligencer Quotes from Fred Rogers - Minneapolis Star Tribune -