For some time we have been adding days, weeks, or months of celebration and remembrance to our national calendar, some of them amusing or frivolous, others earnest and important, others profoundly serious. Truly, as you’ll see from these stories, we do need those cultural moments to celebrate and to contemplate.
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-Day.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/15/2000 Martin Luther King, Jr. Transcript This coming Monday is our nationally designated holiday celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. Hopefully, over the next few days you will read or hear King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Those […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Soup-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/5/2000 Soup Transcript My old world mother-in-law made the kind of soup that would restore peace and tranquility at the end of the most terrible horrible no-good very bad day. It was ambrosia–one soup had 14 vegetables, and we still don’t know to this […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-the-New-Babies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/3/2000 Happy New Year Typography with Fireworks in Night Sky For the New Babies of the Millennium Transcript In Japan, during the first days of the new year, the Kakizome festival takes place; it’s is dedicated to putting the first marks on paper for […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Millennial-Reflections.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/31/1999 Millennial Reflections Transcript The millennium turns tonight–an occasion for all sorts of celebrations–and reflections. There will be, I’m sure, a watchful media to tell (and show) us which child was born first in the new millennium — quite an honor indeed. For the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sawed-Off-Santa.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/24/1999 Sawed-Off Santa Transcript It was 9:43a.m. The headmistress’s voice sounded desperate. “Don Hern has the flu. He was going to play Santa for us today, so will you do it?” I guess word had gotten around that I owned a Santa suit. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/23/1999 Music for the Holidays Transcript There’s something about the sound of xylophones, that usually makes me want to head for the hills–unless it’s Pappageno’s glockenspiel in the Magic Flute, or Carl Orff’s kids with their magic rhythms. But I must confess that a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Snow-Magic-Snow.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/22/1999 First Snow, Magic Snow Transcript It’s the first day of winter today, the time of the Winter Solstice, the ancient days of Yule, the darkest night of the year. It’s also the perfect time for the first snow to fall. In Russian villages, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Time-Capsules-for-Kids.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 12/20/1999 Time Capsules for Kids Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge, on the Internet. As the new Millennium approaches, don’t miss a great opportunity to work with your kids on a project that will have meaning in the years to come. Before the clock strikes and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Gift-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/16/1999 Gift Books Transcript We always give books to the young people in our family for the holidays and birthdays. The books don’t have batteries (usually) or need any assembling–and if they’re good enough, they’ll last for a long, long time. This year, I’m […]