Culture
Manners for Boys
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]
Helen Levitt’s Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Helen-Levitts-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/25/2000 Helen Levitt’s Children Transcript Four girls are walking down the sidewalk, their backs to us. It is summer, and they are dressed in shorts and sundresses. It’s a gritty, stained street. Three of the girls are black, and one is white, but they […]
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, […]
The Littlest 49ers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Littlest-49ers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/24/2000 The Littlest 49ers Transcript Gold was discovered this morning on the American River in California in 1848, on a construction site for a saw mill that was being built for John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had become, in the ten years since […]
Marketing Childhood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marketing-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/29/1999 Marketing Childhood Transcript It seems that each week, in major newspapers or magazines, someone is doing an article about how much money is to be made on the merchandise of childhood. This fall alone, we’ve had the Harry Potter books phenomenon — a […]
Jonas Salk
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jonas-Salk.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/28/1999 Jonas Salk Transcript Here is Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering for us. Today is Jonas Salk’s birthday. He would be eighty-five if he were still with us. His life and mine were interwoven, though we never met. On the day I […]
Pledge of Allegiance
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pledge-of-Allegiance.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/8/1999 Pledge of Allegiance Transcript Some folks in California are trying to revive a tradition today that began back in 1892, when the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by schoolchildren across America in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of what was then referred […]
Conundrums
Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, with a Lost and Found Essay about conundrums.
Inscriptions
One of the fascinating opportunities of working with a historical children's literature collection is reading the inscriptions that people wrote in the books. Rita Smith, curator of the Baldwin Library, is here to discuss some of the inscriptions she has discovered in the collection.
Baseball Cards
As curator of a historical children's literature collection, Rita Smith comes across many things youngsters stuck into pages of a book. Today, she discusses a recent find: baseball cards.