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/Celebrating-Halloween-A-Hundred-Years-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/28/2004 A Halloween Party in 1905 Transcript A young girl invites 16 boys and 15 girls to a Halloween party. All invitees happily accept and at six o’clock on October 31, the 31 guests arrive, greeted on the lawn by a life-sized witch. Her […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Graphic-Novels.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/18/2004 Graphic Novels Transcript It’s the beginning of Teen Read Week, which isn’t such a contradiction in terms as it may seem. Teens actually do a lot of reading outside of school, but it’s usually not what we adults would recognize as being especially […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Lunch-Week-Pizza.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/12/2004 School Lunch Week: Pizza Transcript All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of us realize that this favorite of children and grown-ups alike has had a long and convoluted history down the millennia. Pizza as […]
That’s the Grammy-award winning artist, David Holt, with a smidjin of one of his mountain music classics, “Little Log Cabin in the Lane,” from his Grandfather’s Greatest Hits.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Labor-Day-Children-at-Work.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/6/2004 Labor Day: Children at Work Transcript Today is Labor Day, a holiday that is meant to celebrate the hard-working women and men who have built our own and every other country. Left out of this commemoration, though, are the many children who were […]
That’s Dan Zanes, Barbar Brousal, and Cynthia Hopkins with the sea shanty “Strike the Bell” from the CD, Sea Music.
That’s the incomparable Floxie Bee the Hikosso Queen, with the beginning of one of the most popular songs from Nigeria, and indeed from all of Africa — “Sweet Mother.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Kinds-of-Valentines-in-South-Korea.mp3 Author Cathlena Martin Air Date 4/14/2004 Korean Valentines Transcript Two months ago on February 14, Americans celebrated Valentine’s Day. Some people feel that this is a ridiculous holiday promoted largely by the greeting card, flower, and candy industries, while others cherish it as a day of love and caring. […]
It’s April Fools Day, and Barry Stewart Mann is remembering two types of practical jokes.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Festival-at-the-Abode-of-Peace.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 3/19/2004 Spring Festival at the Abode of Peace Transcript Every year, in late March or early April, India celebrates Holi, or the Festival of Colors. Children spill out into the streets and gleefully spray each other with a rainbow of liquid or powdered colors. […]