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/The-Unlikely-Heroes-of-Christmas.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/17/2002 The Unlikely Heroes of Christmas Transcript Christmas traditions and holiday festivities have long been associated with words like Merry, Joy, and Celebration. The word Looser, however, hardly comes to mind when thinking of one’s favorite Christmas Carols. The truth is, though, that one […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Fantastic-Books-for-the-Holidays.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 12/16/2002 Fantastic Books for the Holidays Transcript Ug. That’s the title of a wonderful new children’s book. I’m not kidding. It really is. Ug is the name of a cave boy who just happens to be a Stone Age genius — […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-George-and-the-Dragon.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/11/2002 St. George and the Dragon Transcript Christmas time is a time for storytelling, and though many countries have their favorite wintertime folk tales–in England–Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas, without the tale of St. George and the Dragon. The Patron Saint of England, St. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Veterans-Day-Celebration-of-America.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/11/2002 Veteran’s Day — “Celebration of America” Transcript It’s Veteran’s Day today, our national holiday that commemorates the end of World War I, on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh month, of the eleventh day in 1918. A new CD for young people, “Celebration […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-2-1.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/15/2002 Teen Read Week Transcript My cousin Nettie said she knew her son George might get through school okay, but the way he was doing it was enough to give her sinking spells and liver chills. You see, George would never crack a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disgustingly-Yummy-Foods.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/10/2002 Disgustingly Yummy Foods Transcript While we all know that October is famous for Halloween candy, it is also a month to celebrate strange foods in general. October 9 (1996) marks the day that a well-known American food company made the world’s largest grilled […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Few-Words-about-Grandparents.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/6/2002 Grandparents Transcript It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and that has Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering. When a child is lucky enough to have a grandparent in his or her life, it’s like being armed with a Supreme Court Justice always ready to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Clowning-Around-International-Clown-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 8/6/2002 Clowning Around Transcript The summer before fifth grade, my friend Billy Tutwiler and I decided we wanted to be rich. We felt we were smart enough to start our own business, so we opened Clowns and Associates. We didn’t know what the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tales-for-World-Turtle-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/22/2002 World Turtle Day Transcript Today, in honor of National Turtle Day, I’m going to celebrate the turtle who has been held up to children for centuries as a role model of persistence, diligence, and stick-to-it-tiveness; the slow and steady tortoise in the fable, […]
