Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Freddie-Bartholomew.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/28/2000 Freddie Bartholomew Transcript One of the great child stars of the 1930s, Freddie Bartholomew, was born today in London in 1924. He had a glowing presence, cherubic good looks and a natural gift for acting–something his Aunt Cissie noticed right away. She became […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Steichen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2000 Edward Steichen Transcript Edward Steichen, one of America’s most noted photographers, was born today in 1879 in Luxembourg, where he spent the first two years of his life before his family resettled in Michigan and his father went to work in the copper […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Appleseed.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/13/2000 Johnny Appleseed Day Transcript It’s Johnny Appleseed Day today, marking the death, in 1843, of one of our nation’s most intriguing personages. He was born John Chapman, in 1775 in Leominster, Massachusetts, the son of a Minuteman, Nathaniel Chapman, who could well have […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barbies-Debut.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/9/2000 Barbie’s Debut Transcript When toymakers talk about their hopes for success, the term they use to describe great, continuing sales is “legs”–as in Barbie’s. The Barbie doll, which debuted 41 years ago today, is one of those fabled toys that never seems to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Working-Womens-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/8/2000 Working Women’s Day Transcript It’s International Women’s Day, a holiday in many countries around the world, as it should be in ours, where the events took place, in 1857, that over a century later lead, in 1977, to Unesco’s naming this day in […]
You’re hearing a little from one of the most recorded pieces of modern classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero”–though the French composer, who was born today in 1875, might be a little surprised to hear it played on a toy piano.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Autograph-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/6/2000 Autograph Books Transcript This is National Autograph Collecting Week, and as we know the hunting of celebrity autographs–on every conceivable surface from baseballs to the backs of hands has never been more frenzied. Back in the late 1800s, one of the fads among […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walter-Dean-Meyers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/29/2000 Walter Dean Myers Transcript In our continuing programs in celebration of Black History Month, a writer for children and young adults who must be mentioned is Walter Dean Myers. Among his many distincitons, he’s a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award […]
