Tag: Florida
The American Story
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-American-Story.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/2006 The American Story Transcript You wouldn’t know it today, to judge by all the tourists and traffic, but St. Augustine, Florida, just a short morning’s drive from Gainesville, where we produce these programs, lays claim to the title, First City in America. First […]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
These are the sounds of Cross Creek, near the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, just a few minutes south of Gainesville, Florida, where we produce these programs.
Back to School By Way of the Solar System
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-Via-the-Solar-System.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/29/2002 Back to School By Way of the Solar System Transcript They’ve just done a wonderful thing in our town on what used to be a rather dull, bare street that was devoid of any real visual distinction. There’s a long sidewalk, that’s really […]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marjorie-Kinnan-Rowlings-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/8/2002 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Transcript Certain writers are known for their sense of place. There is Mark Twain and his muddy brown, strolling, Mississippi River, or Jack London and his icy-white, bone chilling, north woods. Less prolific perhaps, but no less able to convey […]
The Childhood of the Highwaymen
That's the African American artist, James Butler, talking about his early commitment to art on a documentary film by Julia D'Amico called The Highwaymen. Everyone has been talking about the Highwaymen in Florida for the past few years.
Poetry Day in Florida
Author John Cech Air Date 5/25/2001 Poetry Day in Florida Transcript Its already gotten warm in Florida, the kind of warm that sets you dozing and dreaming. And one of the most famous poems ever written about Florida, Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Kubla Kahn came out of a dream. Back in eighteenth century England, Coleridge […]
The Jason Project
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jason-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 10/6/2000 The Jason Project Transcript One rainy summer vacation afternoon my father attempted to cheer me up by promising a day-trip to the old city of St. Augustine, Florida. As the daughter of a writer, I was not surprised, but still chagrined, to find […]
Leilani Clarke
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 […]