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/Halcyon-Days.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/15/1999 Halcyon Days Transcript There’s always a time in the middle of the holidays when I just want to cry uncle. “Oh, let’s do away with all this hubbub,” I think. “I can’t take it anymore!” Usually that’s the day on which I […]
Here’s Koren Stembridge with some advice about shopping for holiday gifts online.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Holiday-Movies.mp3 Author Elaine Needelman Air Date 12/10/1999 It’s Not Christmas Without You Transcript Here’s Elaine Needelman, with her regular media review. Since I was a child I’ve loved television during the month of December. I will watch The Nutcracker over and over–even if it’s on ice, and I am instantly […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cool-Sites-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 12/3/1999 Cool Sites for the Holidays Transcript Today, our internet correspondent, Koren Stembridge, has some ideas for holiday surfing. It’s December, 1999. You have only a few weeks left to teach your friends and family the words to Auld Lang Syne so that you […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rosa-Parks-Day.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 12/1/1999 Rosa Parks Day Transcript Here’s Jim Haskins, with some thoughts for Rosa Parks Day. Rosa Parks, it is said, refused to move from the seat she had taken at the front of that Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1st, 1955 because she was, […]
The multiplexes are already filled up with this year’s family films for the holidays, and Elaine Needelman has some suggestions that just might save you some time in line.
Today is Thanksgiving Day, which was for the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims one of a cycle of five Thanksgiving festivals. The late Princess Redwing, who you will hear on this 1991 interview, was a well known storyteller throughout New England. Here is her account of the first Thanksgiving.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/World-Rights-of-the-Child.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/19/1999 World Rights of the Child Day Transcript It’s the end of Children’s Book Week, and we have been talking about some of the new books that are ready to be planted in our children’s lives. But for there to even be books in […]
Today is National Homemade Bread Day, and Shelley Fraser Mickle has some thoughts about the subject that have stuck with her for a long time.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Book-Week-2.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/16/1999 National Children’s Book Week Transcript On the second day of National Children’s Book Week, we’re harvesting a wonderful crop of picture books that follow the week’s theme: “Plant a Seed …. Read.” In the most literal of ways, that’s what the writer Sarah […]