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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Prudence-Crandall.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/3/2002 Prudence Crandall Transcript Prudence Crandall was a woman who possessed the ability to discern something coming to an end and the seeds of a new beginning. In 1831, the leading citizens of Plainfield, Connecticut, were overjoyed when Crandall, a young Quaker school teacher, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Old-Mother-Hubbard-and-The-Dog-Days.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/27/2002 Old Mother Hubbard and the Dog Days Transcript Here we are, in the midst of the summer dog days and I am going to take this opportunity to honor a dog who gets much less credit and respect than he deserves. This dog […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Orville-Wright-Child-Tinkerer.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/19/2002 Orville Wright Transcript Even as a young child, Orville was interested in tinkering and trying new things. On the morning of his fifth birthday, his father brought him a special present. It was a top, but the strangest-looking top Orville had ever seen. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tivoli-Gardens-The-First-Theme-Park.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/15/2002 Tivoli Gardens Transcript Tivoli Gardens — the famous amusement park in Denmark, which took its name from a much older Tivoli Gardens in Italy — opened its gates in the late summer of 1843. It was the brainchild of an entertainment entrepreneur named […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maxfield-Parrish-Visionary-Artist.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/25/2002 Maxfield Parrish Transcript Maxfield Parrish was the most popular artist in America in the early decades of the 20th century. In a survey taken in 1925, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish were thought to be the three greatest artists of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Isaac-Watts-A-First-Childrens-Poet.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/18/2002 Isaac Watts Transcript Isaac Watts, born in 1674 in England, was a Non-conformist minister and a hymn writer. In his lifetime he wrote over 600 hymns. Some of them, such as O God, Our Help in Ages Past, When I Survey the Wondrous […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tales-for-World-Turtle-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/22/2002 World Turtle Day Transcript Today, in honor of National Turtle Day, I’m going to celebrate the turtle who has been held up to children for centuries as a role model of persistence, diligence, and stick-to-it-tiveness; the slow and steady tortoise in the fable, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-First-Crossword-Puzzles.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/17/2002 Kids’ First Crossword Puzzles Transcript On April 10, 1924, Simon and Schuster published the first crossword puzzle book. A dollar thirty-five bought all the fun and challenge of 50 puzzles, and to top it off, the book came with a free pencil. Within […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walter-Camp-Athlete-and-Childrens-Book-Writer.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/8/2002 Walter Camp, Footballs and Books Transcript Walter Camp was born April 7, 1859. As a boy Camp wasn’t particularly athletic nor strong, but he loved sports and wanted to excel in them, so he set himself a personal regimen. Every morning he did […]