Obis’ honeymoon with his first wife, 44 years ago started off with a baked potato for breakfast because that’s what the airline he was flying came up with as a vegetarian meal.
“I met Fred Rogers back in the year 1982.
He was a vegetarian, and at the time, my husband Paul Obis and I were publishing Vegetarian Times magazine. Paul contacted Fred’s people to arrange for an interview for a cover story. So when Fred was visiting Chicago to do a show at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, we took our three children (the smallest was a baby in our arms, the other two weren’t watching television yet) downtown to the Cultural Center. Though the children weren’t aware of who we were meeting, we were certainly excited.
Before the program was set to start, Mister Rogers came out to meet us. He was wearing a trench coat and was unassuming in his looks and just as sweet and humble in his attitude as you’d expect him to be. We all met and chatted a bit. Then he and Paul got up and went to a side room to do the magazine interview. He talked about his decision to become a vegetarian and some of his lifestyle practices like swimming.
Sometime, for the sake of not killing animals, he decided he didn’t want to eat meat anymore. So he became a vegetarian just like that and much to his family’s surprise.
Talking with him was so interesting! He and Paul really hit it off. And when we met, I felt our souls make a touchstone meeting. I could feel him, he could feel my heart. It was a very lovely introduction to an extraordinary man. I didn’t have a sense that we’d see each other again. But we did.
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Obis’ honeymoon with his first wife, 44 years ago started off with a baked potato for breakfast because that’s what the airline he was flying came up with as a vegetarian meal.
“I met Fred Rogers back in the year 1982.
He was a vegetarian, and at the time, my husband Paul Obis and I were publishing Vegetarian Times magazine. Paul contacted Fred’s people to arrange for an interview for a cover story. So when Fred was visiting Chicago to do a show at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, we took our three children (the smallest was a baby in our arms, the other two weren’t watching television yet) downtown to the Cultural Center. Though the children weren’t aware of who we were meeting, we were certainly excited.
Before the program was set to start, Mister Rogers came out to meet us. He was wearing a trench coat and was unassuming in his looks and just as sweet and humble in his attitude as you’d expect him to be. We all met and chatted a bit. Then he and Paul got up and went to a side room to do the magazine interview. He talked about his decision to become a vegetarian and some of his lifestyle practices like swimming.
Sometime, for the sake of not killing animals, he decided he didn’t want to eat meat anymore. So he became a vegetarian just like that and much to his family’s surprise.
Talking with him was so interesting! He and Paul really hit it off. And when we met, I felt our souls make a touchstone meeting. I could feel him, he could feel my heart. It was a very lovely introduction to an extraordinary man. I didn’t have a sense that we’d see each other again. But we did.