Among their stellar inventions and advancements, cultures also produce strange and strangely wonderful things that express their values, their hopes, their myths. Cultures also include those special objects, like the Japanese Daruma Doll, Pez dispensers, and Magic Lantern shows.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Daniel-Boone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2000 Daniel Boone Transcript It’s the birthday tomorrow of one of the major, mythological presences of American culture, Daniel Boone — pioneer, woodsman, hunter, colonizer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, and in a life that spanned 86 years — a remarkable feat […]
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet with some online resources to help you prepare for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home.
That’s Woody Guthrie’s son, Arlo, singing his haunting “Hobo’s Lullaby” in honor of the National Hobo Convention, which takes place this week in Britt, Iowa.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Circus.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/5/2000 P. T. Barnum and the Circus Transcript July 5 is the birthday of P.T. Barnum, the man who in the 1870’s brought the American circus into its golden age. Over the next 50 years, the circus was one of the premier entertainment venues […]
Here’s Koren Stembridge to talk about the differences in the ways that men and women use the Internet.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Koren-Stembridge-on-the-Internet.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/29/2000 Internet Travel Sites Transcript If you need some ideas for planning a great family vacation this year, you might try some of the many internet travel sites that will help you with the process of deciding where to go, how to get there, […]
Those are the eight-year-old Dionne Quintuplets, singing for a Canadian war bond drive in 1942.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dr-Spock.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2000 Dr. Spock Transcript Dr. Benjamin Spock was born today in 1903, in New Haven, Connectict, into a solidly conservative New England family. An ironic beginning, perhaps, for a man who would be demonized during the 1960s and 70s, and blamed for having popularized […]
