Eliot Daley - Show Writer of Mister Rogers Neighborhood

<p>Welcome To The Neighborhood</p><p><strong>Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast</strong></p><p><strong>I’m your host, Rick Lee James of RickLeeJames.com and I run the Mister Rogers Quotes Twitter account found </strong><strong>@MisterRogersSay</strong><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>As we again walk into this podcast neighborhood, we want you to know that no matter where you are from, you are welcome here. I’m glad to be your neighbor. Every daughter, every son, every tribe, and every tongue, in the Spirit of Fred Rogers and the life of welcome that he lived, welcome to the neighborhood.</strong></p><p><strong>This week in the neighborhood, we’re having a visit with Eliot Daley.</strong></p><p>About Our Guest (In His Own Words)</p><p><strong>Eliot Daley</strong></p><p><strong>www.eliotdaley.com</strong></p><p>My life’s work spans multiple causes and enterprises.  Early in my career I taught and counseled at both the high school and college levels, was a chaplain (Middlebury College) and a parish minister, while simultaneously studying the social impact of TV.  Realizing that children’s exposure to the world through TV (not a feature of my own upbringing in the 40s and 50s) would dramatically change their social and emotional and informational environments, I pursued all the available research on the subject and shared what I learned by producing workshops and writing articles on the subject for various national publications.  </p><p>As part of my ongoing research into children’s programs, I encountered the then-fledgling production of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in 1969 and set up a meeting with Fred Rogers to learn more about it and to write an article about his program and work.  We spent a weekend together with our families and realized instantly that we were comrades-in-arms.  Shortly thereafter he asked me if I would consider joining him as his co-writer and executive head of the company, and I eagerly accepted his invitation.  </p><p>In the early years, I wrote 15-20 of the 65 p