Grace Cavalieri on Fred Rogers

Won’t You Be My Neighbor is a new documentary focusing on the life and career of everyone’s favorite friend and TV personality, Fred Rogers, AKA Mr. Rogers.

For an op-ed about the still rippling cultural impact of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood which ran for over 40 years, Kathi Wolfe turned to Grace Cavalieri who befriended Fred Rogers while she was working as the associate director of children’s programming at PBS. Though Grace only gets a line it is one which helps to answer an important question: just who is this Fred guy anyway when without the set, the vests, and lenses?

Read the full article form The Washington Blade here