Little Lit. III: “It was a Dark and Silly Night”

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/It-was-a-Dark-and-Silly-Night-Little-Lit-III.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/8/2003 Little Lit. III: “It was a Dark and Silly Night” Transcript I can’t think of a better way to spend and evening, with Halloween approaching, than with the latest installment of Little Lit, that project launched by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly that connects […]

Becoming a Paleontologist

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]

Vinnie Ream, America’s Youngest Sculptress

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Vinnie-Ream-Americas-Youngest-Sculptress.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/25/2003 Vinnie Ream, America’s Youngest Sculptress Transcript Vinnie Ream was the youngest American artist ever to receive a commission from the federal government. In 1866, the United States Congress passed a resolution which offered the 19-year-old a remarkable opportunity, to create a life-sized statue […]

UNESCO’s Lullabies

This song comes from Lullabies and Children’s Songs, a CD from UNESCO; it’s part of their series of recordings called “Listening to the World.”

Remembering 9/11 in Poetry

That’s Tahkus Ekedal singing the first verse of Ted Arnold’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” from the CD “The Days Gone By, Songs of the American Poets.”

Folktales for National Grandparents Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Folktales-for-National-Grandparents-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/5/2003 Folktales for National Grandparents Day Transcript It’s National Grandparents Day this Sunday, and the well-known storyteller, Jane Yolen, a grandparent herself, has offered a present specifically for grandsons, in her new collection of folktales: Mightier Than the Sword, World Folktales for Strong Boys. These […]

Labor Day with Ella Jenkins

That’s Ella Jenkins, one of this country’s great folksingers for young people, with a nursery rhyme especially for Labor Day.

Back to School in Sumer

You’re hearing Janet Smith’s recreation of some of the oldest music in the west, from ancient Sumeria, in what is now called Iraq.

Hawaii

That’s the Concert Glee Club from the King Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu singing a song that celebrates those early explorers, the Wayfarers, from the ancient Marquesas and Polynesia.

For Art’s Sake

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-Arts-Sake.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/26/2003 For Art’s Sake Transcript With the new school year just beginning or just around the corner of Labor Day, you may find something missing in your children’s school day this year, if it hasn’t already disappeared: art. Art classes used to be one […]

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