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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hanna-in-the-Time-of-the-Tulips.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2005 Hana in the Time of the Tulips Transcript It’s the first days of May, a time when things suddenly begin to bloom in northern climates, a time for flowers. The ancient Romans even held a festival in the early part of May in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Festival-at-the-Abode-of-Peace.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 3/19/2004 Spring Festival at the Abode of Peace Transcript Every year, in late March or early April, India celebrates Holi, or the Festival of Colors. Children spill out into the streets and gleefully spray each other with a rainbow of liquid or powdered colors. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-and-Jump-Rope.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/20/2002 Spring and Jump Rope Transcript Ah, let the games begin. In spring festivals in ancient Greece and Rome, young people would jump over vines, not only to show their physical prowess, but to predict how high that year’s crops would grow. We don’t […]