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Spring Flowers

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Flowers-and-Childhood.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/20/2006 Spring Flowers Transcript As a child I marked, with special reverence, the clockwork of spring flowers. The bulbs and blooms of spring in New England were reliable timepieces by which a child might know what clothes to wear or anticipate the end of […]

The Tenth Rasa

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Tenth-Rasa-Nonsense-from-India.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/15/2006 The Tenth Rasa Transcript Hollywood is fond of images of heroic nutty professors, of inventors of flubber and of academics who possess peculiar insights into the unlikeliest of subjects. While Michael Heyman, an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, […]

Paul Revere’s Ride

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Listen-my-children-and-you-shall-hear…mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/18/2005 Paul Revere’s Ride Transcript In Massachusetts, Patriots Day, April 18th, is celebrated with great fervor and pride. On Lexington Green, the shot heard round the world is fired once more – and is followed by a faithful reenactment of the first battle of […]

Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Limericks-for-St.-Patricks-Day.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/17/2005 Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day Transcript “There was an old man who lived in Nantucket.” Now hold on, don’t worry. This isn’t what you think. I want to clear the name of that poor Old Man once and for all. The original Limerick, […]

Frankenstein’s Birthday

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Frankensteins-Birthday.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/11/2005 Frankenstein’s Birthday Transcript It was March 11, 1818 that Mary Shelley’s macabre masterpiece first rose from the slab. One hundred and eighty-two years later, Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus is still very much alive. As a child, my friends and I considered Frankenstein the King […]

Lewis Carroll’s Poetic Puzzles

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lewis-Carrolls-Puzzles.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/27/2005 Lewis Carroll’s Poetic Puzzles Transcript Perhaps no four lines are more famous in the realm of children’s poetry than the opening stanza to “Jabberwocky”, – Lewis Carroll’s penultimate moment as a children’s poet – As read by William Rushton  from the first chapter […]

T. S. Eliot

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/T-S-Eliot-That-Ol-Possum.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/23/2004 T. S. Eliot Transcript T. S. Eliot has been called “The greatest literary figure of the English-speaking world in the 20th Century.” He was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature and his poem, The Waste Land, is widely considered the most […]

Up on the Moon

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Up-On-the-Moon.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/20/2004 Up on the Moon Transcript I have always felt lucky to remember the first moon landing. At the time, I was only three and a half. I suppose that if I had been born just a few months later, I could have missed […]

Disneyland Opens

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disneyland-Beginnings.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/15/2004 Disneyland Opens Transcript On July 17, 1955 Walt Disney opened the doors to Disneyland and turned his cartoon world into a three-dimensional experience. Disney’s interest in fantasy takes us to the root of understanding what he was trying to achieve with his theme […]

The Guillow Balsa Wood Airplane

The birthday of Charles Lindbergh, the great American aviator, is coming up this weekend, and that has Kevin Shortsleeve remembering one of his first airplanes.