Whenever a writer or illustrator or, for that matter, anyone who had a great story to tell visited Gainesville, we would try to interview them about their children’s books that had influenced them. The results, as you’ll see were fairly amazing: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, biblical scholar Elaine Pagels, novelist M. T. Anderson, and UF alumna, Kate di Camillo.
Today, John Cech interviews William Woodruff, professor emeritus of history and economics at the University of Florida, and the author of dozens of books and articles, including this selection about the book that mattered most to him in his life. It’s from his autobiography, The Road to Nab End, which is on the nonfiction bestseller list in England, where it is being hailed as a “masterpiece” and “an English Angela’s Ashes.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leilani-Clarke.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/20/2000 Leilani Clarke Transcript Earlier this year, Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio program held a national contest for Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand. The winner of the competition was 12-year old Leilani Clarke from Welbourne, Florida, an easy morning’s drive through the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/BJ-Pinchbeck.mp3 Author Lauren Bradway Air Date 9/11/2000 BJ Pinchbeck Transcript With the children back in school, and the assignments already piling up, one of the web sites that your youngsters might really want to log onto is B.J. Pinchbeck’s homework page. Here today is Dr. Lauren Bradway, a speech and […]
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.
Today, we are talking with Gabriel Schwartzman, who at the time he accomplished it, was the youngest person to become an international Chess Grandmaster. He won the US Open Championship in 1996 and shared the title in 1999. He told me how chess began for him.
In our ongoing series about children’s books that have mattered to people throughout their lives, we asked Mary Ann Eaverly, a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Florida whose specialty is archaic Greek sculpture, about her favorite children’s book, Gene Stratton-Porter’s Freckles.
We’re speaking today with Eric Dawson, who is the executive director of Peace Games, an innovative program that educates young people in schools in Boston and Cambridge, and soon throughout the country, about ways to seek peaceful resolutions to the conflicts they encounter throughout their lives.
Last November, we heard a portion of a 1981 interview with Princess Redwing, which told about the first Thanksgiving from the Native American point of view. In this excerpt, the late Princess Redwing, who passed away a few years after this interview, explains about the first Thanksgiving of the year for the Native Americans of the northeast.
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.
