Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Washingtons-Civil-Lessons.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/7/2003 George Washington’s Lessons Transcript In 1745 George Washington was a 13 year old school-boy in Virginia when he wrote down a list of social rules in his workbook entitles “The Rules of Civility.” The list was the descendant of a courtesy book published […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childhoods-of-the-Presidents-Truman.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/8/2002 Childhoods of the Presidents: Harry Truman Transcript Today, on the birthday of Harry S. Truman, we are beginning an on-going series of programs about the childhoods of the American Presidents. One wonders, of course, if, with these figures who have been and are […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Washingtons-Mother.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/22/2001 George Washington’s Mother Transcript Today is George Washington’s birthday, an appropriate time to remember that the father of our country also had a mother — Mary Ball Washington. Her rather unconventional, and at times eccentric character is the subject of a new video […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lies.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/15/2000 Lies Transcript There is no documented evidence on when we, as a species, first discovered that we can lie. When I think back, it seems to me I came up with my first whopper when I was four. By four, you have […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Biography-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/16/2000 Biography Day Transcript In celebration of Biography Day, I am going to read from one of the first biographies of George Washington for young people, written by Mason L. Weems, first published in 1800. In this biography, Weems focused on the private rather […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Parson-Weems.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/11/1999 Parson Weems Transcript Mason Locke Weems was born today in 1759. He was an ordained Anglican minister — hence the name he’s most frequently known by, “Parson Weems.” But he soon abandoned that calling for something more lucrative. He sold books, from village […]