Green Bean Thanksgiving
The green beans in New England are ready for harvesting. Time for another story from the late Princess Redwing, recorded in 1981, about the third Thanksgiving in the Native American calendar to give thanks for the green bean.
Princess Red Wing: Strawberry Thanksgiving
This past year, we’ve been listening to a cycle of Native American Thanksgiving legends told by the late Princess Redwing. Here she is in a recording made in Arcadia, Rhode Island in 1981, telling the story of the Strawberry Thanksgiving.
The Dalai Lama’s Birthday
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dalai-Lamas-Birthday.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2000 Dalai Lama Transcript Few cultures have depended so fervently and completely on the discovery of a miracle child as that of traditional Tibet, before the Chinese conquest. The fourteenth Dalai Lama, whose birthday it is today, is one of a long line of […]
Biography Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Biography-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/16/2000 Biography Day Transcript In celebration of Biography Day, I am going to read from one of the first biographies of George Washington for young people, written by Mason L. Weems, first published in 1800. In this biography, Weems focused on the private rather […]
Etiquette Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Etiquette-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/10/2000 Etiquette Week Transcript This is National Etiquette Week, and to a child, there is almost nothing more boring than learning etiquette. It can be dangerous, too. Quentin Crisp, a British author wrote that “nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into […]
May Day
That’s the late, great, beat poet, Allen Ginsberg with friends singing a part of their 1969, slightly off-key version of one of William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”–the “Echoing Green.”
Arbor Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Arbor-Day.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/28/2000 Arbor Day Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the Earth’s sweet flowing breast: A tree that looks at God all day, […]
Your First Kiss Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remember-Your-First-Kiss-Day.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/26/2000 Your First Kiss Day Transcript Today is Remember Your First Kiss Day. Now, everybody knows that talking about your first kiss is not talking about the first time you got a kiss. Because 99 times out of a hundred anybody’s first kiss […]