Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Howard-Pyle.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/7/2001 Howard Pyle Transcript Way back in 1877, American children going through their latest issues of St. Nicholas Magazine discovered some little fables with illustrations quite different from those to which they were accustomed. These simple drawings had a strong, heavy line, and a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/January.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/1/2001 January Transcript “Here is January. All hail to thee.” Thus begins the writer of Peter Parley’s Annual for the year 1856, brimming with good cheer and optimism. The writers of children’s literature have taken numerous opportunities over the years to celebrate January by […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Purloined-Christmas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/18/2000 Purloined Christmas Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a story about something that went missing one Christmas. Casting about for an interesting children’s Christmas story, I found one in the December 1897 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Children that gives new meaning to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St.-Nicholas-Day.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/6/2000 St. Nicholas Day Transcript In her lost and found essay today, Rita Smith takes us from the fourth century to the present’s presents. December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, according to legend, the date a man named Nicholas, who lived in the fourth […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Nicholas-1-1.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/18/2000 St. Nicholas in July Transcript As editor of the 19th century juvenile magazine, St. Nicholas, Mary Mapes Dodge wrote an essay outlining her editorial philosophy. Two ideas in particular standout in this essay. First is her assertion that an “ideal juvenile magazine must […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Years-Ago-in-St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2000 Summer Camp 100 Years Ago Transcript “The hurried steps of the father descending the stairs were heard through the closed door. The son turned away to hide the working of his face and examined the pictures on the wall through a film of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Saint-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/23/2000 St. Nicholas in May Transcript St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. The May, 1900, issue opens with an essay by Theodore Roosevelt entitled, “What We Can Expect of the American Boy?” […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/5/2000 St. Nicholas in April Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. It contained fiction and non-fiction articles, as well as poetry, letters, and puzzles. Many […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Years-Ago-in-ST-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 3/29/2000 St. Nicholas in March Transcript Here’s Rita Smith with a Rediscovery. St. Nicholas, the premier magazine for boys and girls, began publication November 1873 and was issued monthly until March 1940. Each issue, awaited anxiously by thousands of American children, carried a variety […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-Nicholas-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/6/1999 St. Nicholas Day Transcript Before he became a rotund Dutch uncle, smoking a long-stemmed clay pipe and trying to stuff his wide girth into an impossibly small chimney — in the form made famous in Thomas Nast’s cartoons–the original Saint Nicholas was hardly […]