Culture
Annie Oakley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Annie-Oakley.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/15/2006 Annie Oakley Transcript In her lifetime, Annie Oakley was idolized for her skill as a sharp shooter. Since her death in 1926, the life has become legend, as Oakley became the embodiment of the “archetypal western woman: daring, beautiful and skilled.”1 Annie was born […]
Summer Camp
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Summer-Camp.mp3 Author Linda Stanley Air Date 7/26/2006 Summer Camp Transcript The lengthening days of summer bring with them a brief reprieve from normal routines for many parents and children alike. Every year in a time-honored tradition, little John and Sally pack their backpacks and head off for a week or […]
Children at the Wedding
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-in-the-Wedding-Party.mp3 Author Cari Keebaugh Air Date 6/8/2006 Children at the Wedding Transcript As a soon-to-be-bride, people have asked me one particular question most over the past few months. It’s not how we came to choose our wedding date. And it’s not how long I have known my future husband and […]
Pez on Parade
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pez-on-Parade.mp3 Author Linda Stanley Air Date 6/7/2006 Pez on Parade Transcript Children love candy, especially when it comes in unique and interesting packaging. Business-savvy candy manufacturers have long worked to capitalize on this interest, marketing a wide range of candy dispensers from gum-filled bubble wands to wind-up chickens that lay […]
Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/the-Magic-Lantern-Theater-Still-Glowing.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/5/2005 Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit Transcript Before any of our modern media — movies, television, videos or DVDs — the Magic Lantern show was the most dazzling, multi-sensory public entertainment around. In America in the late 1800s and into the early 20th century, […]
Legends of the Tooth Fairy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Legends-of-the-Tooth-Fairy.mp3 Author Tanya Underwood Air Date 8/23/2005 Legends of the Tooth Fairy Transcript If only teeth grew on trees, and you wanted a larger upper bicuspid, for example, you could just go to the tooth tree and pick yourself a pearly new one. Were medieval Europeans trying to grow tooth […]
The Lindbergh Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Lindbergh-Baby.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/1/2005 The Lindbergh Baby Transcript On March 1, 1932, between 8 and 9 in the evening, someone put a rickety ladder up to the nursery window of the country home in Hopewell, New Jersey, belonging to the most celebrated couple in the world at […]
Winter Carnivals
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Winter-Carnivals.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 1/20/2005 Winter Carnivals Transcript Bears may hibernate throughout the winter but children and adults with a child’s imagination and immunity from the cold embrace the activities of winter and join in snow and ice festivals and winter carnivals around the world. There are toboggan […]
Ben Franklin’s Kids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ben-Franklins-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/19/2005 Ben Franklin’s Kids Transcript It was Ben Franklin’s birthday a few days ago, just the right time to pass along this information that we received from Seymour Block, who listens to these programs and is a neighbor and friend. Seymour is also an […]
Louis Braille
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Louis-Braille.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 1/6/2005 Louis Braille Transcript This week we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. Born January 4 1809, we remember his life, his contributions and his international legacy, which is best summarized by the words on a plaque in his hometown of […]