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.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Boys-Account-of-It.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/3/2000 The Boy’s Account of It Transcript In 1909, when he was eight years old, William Culver Roberts, Jr., whose nickname was “Bobs, ” published his first book called The Boy’s Account of It — the “It” being the grand tour he took with […]
If you haven’t visited a full-service candy counter lately, you probably aren’t aware that old-fashioned things like lollipops or chocolate bars are simply passé.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Exupery.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/31/2000 Antoine Saint-Exupery Transcript It’s the hundredth anniversary this month of the birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the French writer who gave us one of the classic works of children’s literature in The Little Prince, that philosophical story about a star-child’s search for meaning […]
You’re hearing a small section from the first, mood-setting movement of the American composer Jeffrey Stock’s music for Lulie the Iceberg.
That’s Bert from Sesame Street, played by Frank Oz, singing his signature song, “Doing the Pigeon,” just in time for his birthday today.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Music-for-Travelling.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/21/2000 Music for Traveling Transcript It may be a really risky programming decision, and you may get hooted at by every in the car, but here’s your chance, on the next family road trip, to help correct the sad fact that our kids have […]
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.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Catcher-in-the-Rye.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/17/2000 The Catcher in the Rye Transcript There really isn’t a sound bite that we can offer you to introduce J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, which was published forty-nine years ago this week, because it’s never been turned into an audio […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/IB-Singer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/14/2000 I. B. Singer Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author who, perhaps more than any other writer in this century, has kept the vivid idioms of Yiddish alive in this country through his […]