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“An Ode to Childhood Lost”

September 11, 2009 by Kyle Brady
Tags: Children, Guest Post, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, PBS, Reading Rainbow, TV
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New guest post at the Inquisitr:

The death of Fred Rogers in 2003 was a sad experience that dredged up memories of early childhood I didn’t even know I had, and I discovered I was still fond of the man and his commitment to well-rounded children.  The recent cancellation of “Reading Rainbow”, due to a lack of funding, is no different:  I knew intellectually that the show existed no longer, but it was not until I heard LeVar on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” that I discovered how truly devastated I felt by the loss of such a cornerstone of my childhood.

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