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Celebrate sweater day at Pittsburgh Int’l Airport

03/20/09

Today, March 20th, is the birthday of the late Fred Rogers, the much beloved main character of the long running public TV show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Rogers was as well-known for his button down sweater as he was for his neighborliness, and so on March 20th the new tradition is for neighborly folks everywhere to →

Mister Rogers back at Pittsburgh Int’l Airport

02/24/09

After a six-month vacation, the Mister Rogers exhibit at Pittsburgh International Airport is back in place at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Repaired, refurbished and now technologically up-to-date, the exhibit still includes one of Mister Rogers’ signature sweaters, his sneakers, a miniature Neighborhood of Make Believe and clay models of the show’s characters, including King Friday →

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Recycled fashion at Pittsburgh International Airport

08/01/08

Would you wear clothing made out of old newspapers, crushed glass, old detergent bottles and bits and pieces of aluminum cans? If they looked like the duds Nancy Judd makes, you just might. Judd is an environmental artist who makes award-winning fashion out of the stuff most of us throw away. And from now through →

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Catch the Calder at Pittsburgh International Airport

04/14/08

For years, a graceful aluminum and iron mobile by Alexander Calder has been suspended over the air-side central atrium at Pittsburgh International Airport. The work, titled Pittsburgh, was originally designed for a Carnegie Institute exhibition in 1958 and was moved to the airport in 1959. Except for a stint at the Carnegie Museum of Art →

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Sweaters, everyone

03/17/08

I’m tickled to be doing a guest stint this week and next writing the Airport Check-In column over at USA TODAY. This week’s topics include the re-freshed exhibits at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and, for those celebrating “Won’t You Be My Neighbor Days” a reminder that there’s a →

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