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Hitty, Her First 100 Years

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hitty-Her-First-100-Years.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/4/2002 Hitty, Her First 100 Years Transcript The publication of Hitty, Her First 100 Years was announced to the world on November 3, 1929, in the pages of the New York Herald Tribune. The book purports to be the memoirs of Hitty, short for Hitabel, […]

Rediscovering Rachel Field

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Remembering-Rachel-Field.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/19/2002 Rediscovering Rachel Field Transcript Rachel Field was 10 years old before she learned to read. Born on September 19, 1894, in New York City, she spent the first 10 years of her life in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she attended a one-room school kept […]