Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halloween-in-Salem.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/30/2006 Halloween in Salem Transcript New England celebrates Halloween. I mean, it really celebrates it. And for good reason. There are more ghosts per capita in the New England states than anywhere else. I once spoke with a filmmaker who was going to do […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Celebrating-Halloween-A-Hundred-Years-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/28/2004 A Halloween Party in 1905 Transcript A young girl invites 16 boys and 15 girls to a Halloween party. All invitees happily accept and at six o’clock on October 31, the 31 guests arrive, greeted on the lawn by a life-sized witch. Her […]
Unless you’re of a certain (young) age, you probably don’t remember that the great English film director, Alfred Hitchcock had, for a time, something of a corner on the market for mystery.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Whitcomb-Rileys-Little-Orphant-Annie.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 10/31/2001 “Little Orphant Annie” Transcript Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay, An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away, An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep, An’ make the fire, an’ […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halloweens-Romantic-History.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/30/2001 A Romantic Halloween Transcript Thousands of years ago, on dark November nights, Druids built bonfires among the moors and windswept hills of the British Isles. On these eerie evenings, the ancient precursor to Halloween, the Celtic God of the Dead, Samhain was said […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poems-for-October.mp3 Author William Jay Smith Air Date 10/26/2001 Poems for October Transcript Since this past spring, we’ve been fortunate to have William Jay Smith as our poet in residence to take us around the year with poetry. Here are two of his poems that evoke October, the first about someone […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Monster-Mash.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/25/2001 The Monster Mash Transcript Much like Christmas, Halloween has it’s own set of songs that reflect the stories and themes of the holiday. You might call them Halloween Carols. Haunted House, by Jumpin’ Gene Simmons, Spooky, by the Classic’s Four, Moondance by Van […]
It’s Halloween tonight, and if this ancient holiday is just your cup of tea and sack of candy corn, you might be interested to hear that there’s an entire CD of Halloween music waiting for your trick or treaters.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Riley-Orphan-Annie-1.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/29/1999 “Little Orphant Annie” Transcript James Whitcomb Riley was a widely known Indiana poet ofthe late 1800s. He was so popular that in 1915, a year before his death, the National Commissioner of Education ordered that on his birthday, October 7, a Riley poem […]