Author John Cech Air Date 6/18/2001 Playing Smart — All Summer Transcript Back in the good old days, a few decades ago, when school let out for the year, kids had a whole long summer stretched ahead of them, like a ribbon of blue highway, with some stops along the way for a family vacation […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Balloons-and-the-Baron.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/6/2001 Balloons Transcript Yesterday, in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers in France launched the first balloon into the air. It floated up a quarter of a mile, and was carried by the wind for a mile, and before it landed, ten minutes later, it had […]
Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 6/5/2001 Wonderland on the Auction Block Transcript Tomorrow, Sotheby’s in London will be auctioning off nothing less than …. Wonderland itself — a unique copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (the title of the story before it became Alice in Wonderland), inscribed by its author, Lewis […]
That’s Homer Price’s Aunt Aggie, complaining about newfangled inventions like the doughnut machine that his Uncle Ulysses is tinkering with in the couple’s new little coffee shop on the village square in Centerberg, USA.
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mary-Cassat.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/23/2001 Mary Cassatt Transcript In her famous painting from 1879, of a little girl sprawled on a comfortable blue flowered easy chair, Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist painter broke nearly all of the rules of portrait painting at the time. Her subject is not […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Raggedy-Ann.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/18/2001 Raggedy Ann and Andy Turn 85 Transcript It’s the 85th birthday this year of one of the most durable dolls in toy history, Raggedy Ann, and in Arcola Illinois, the birthplace of the dolls creator, John Barton — or Johnny — Gruelle, the […]
That;s the Washington, D.C. – based a capella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, with the opening of the title song from their new CD for children.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Manners-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2001 Some New Books About Manners Transcript Out of polite respect for National Etiquette Week, we thought wed let you know about some new books dealing with proper conduct for young people. In Harriet Ziefert’s recent picture book, Someday Well Have Very Good Manners, […]
