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Family Stories

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Family-Stories-from-the-Past.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/24/2005 Family Stories Transcript In Good Wives: A Story for Girls, Louisa May Alcott has Jo March declare “I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world,” and stories such as Good Wives and Little Women, in which the action and interactions center […]

Mildred Taylor

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mildred-Taylor.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 2/28/2001 Mildred Taylor Transcript That’s Cassie Logan, played by Lark Ruffin in the 1978 film version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, telling us about her family and their struggles. The setting of Ms. Taylor’s novel, which won the […]