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Sawed-Off Santa

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. […]

Music for the Holidays

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 […]

Gift Books

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 […]

Halcyon Days

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 […]

It’s Not Christmas Without You

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 […]

St. Nicholas Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-Nicholas-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/6/1999 St. Nicholas Day Transcript Before he became a rotund Dutch uncle, smoking a long-stemmed clay pipe and trying to stuff his wide girth into an impossibly small chimney — in the form made famous in Thomas Nast’s cartoons–the original Saint Nicholas was hardly […]