PITTSBURGH — For just this weekend, a neighborhood in this city that has laid dormant in boxes and under plastic coverings for nearly a decade is coming back to life.
Everyone important will be there in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make-Believe: Daniel Striped Tiger, X the Owl, Henrietta Pussycat and even Mr. McFeely in the flesh.
The set is being rebuilt and opened to the public for the renaming of the WQED studio, where the show was taped, after Fred Rogers. The show, now in its 41st year, is the longest-running show on public television, said Maria Pisano, WQED’s marketing associate.
Sadly, not only is Mister Rogers himself conspicuously absent — Fred Rogers died of cancer in 2003 at age 74 — so is the timeless trolley that has ding-dinged along the tracks for 40 years. It is preserved in plexiglass at the Fred Rogers Center in Latrobe, Pa.
