Interview

It’s National Children’s Book Week, and Shelley Fraser Mickle, one of the regular contributors to this program, is with us today to talk about her new book, The Turning Hour, which has just been published.

That’s Roland Brival singing part of his “Creole Gypsy,” which was recently a hit song in France.

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.” 

Today, noted scholar Alicia Nitecki tells us about her favorite book as a child.

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.