First Valentines
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Valentines.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/7/2000 First Valentines Transcript Valentines came into their own in the United States in the 1840s, but, of course, there were valentines before that–long, long before that. No one is certain when the first valentine was sent. There are several legends. One is that […]
Fresh
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fresh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/4/2000 Fresh Transcript In Boaz Yakin’s award-winning film, “Fresh,” we watch with fascination and growing dread as Michael, whose nickname is “Fresh,” the 12-year-old hero of this gritty urban fairy tale, begins to play a dangerous game of deception in which he pits two […]
Norman Rockwell’s Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Norman-Rockwells-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/3/2000 Norman Rockwell’s Children Transcript For the next several years, a remarkable exhibit of the paintings of Norman Rockwell will be touring the country. The exhibit began in Atlanta and now is moving to Chicago, then Washington, D.C., San Diego, Phoenix, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and, […]
Langston Hughes
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Langston-Hughes.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/2/2000 Langston Hughes Transcript What better place to begin Black History Month than with Langston Hughes, who reminds us of the poetry–singing, ringing, soaring, impassioned poetry that is such an essential part of the African American experience. A lesser known aspect of Hughes’s creative […]
Willie Mae
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Willie-Mae.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 2/1/2000 Willie Mae Transcript When I was growing up in Arkansas in the early fifties, my grandmother had a woman who came to work at her house several times a week. She was black, and her name was Willie Mae. You see, my […]
Black History Month Websites
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Websites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/31/2000 Black History Month Websites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the internet for us, with some information about Black History Month, which begins tomorrow. February is Black History Month, the perfect time to log on to the web with your child to visit the […]
Federal Theater Project
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Federal-Theater-Project.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/28/2000 Federal Theater Project Transcript The recent film by Tim Robbins, “Cradle Will Rock,” which has been receiving a great deal of attention in the past weeks, is based on a musical by Marc Blitzstein about the workers’ right to strike that was not […]
Wolfgang Wunderkid
You’re hearing part of the first composition by the world’s most astonishing musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.