Thanksgiving Lullabies
Imagine having this on the CD player in the car, as you’re chasing around from store to store with the kids, on the busiest shopping day of the year, when we’re all obliged to be out and doing.
Thanksgiving and History
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-some-holiday-history.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 11/23/2006 Thanksgiving and History Transcript As we celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s difficult to imagine what that first celebration was like for the Allertons, Hopkinses, and other families who broke bread together on that autumn day nearly four hundred years ago. How do we even know […]
The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Thanksgiving-Dinner-That-Flew.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/25/2004 The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away Transcript “A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away” is a poignant story about a cranky gander and a beloved son lost at sea that appeared in the juvenile periodical St. Nicholas in November, 1883. Hester is a young girl arriving […]
History and Thanksgiving
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/History-and-Thanksgiving-.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 11/27/2003 History and Thanksgiving Transcript As we celebrate Thanksgiving it’s difficult to imagine what that first celebration was like for the Allertons, Hopkinses, and other families who broke bread together on that autumn day nearly four hundred years ago. How do we even know […]
Videos to Keep You from the Multiplex
It’s the biggest shopping day of the year, and John Cech has some film recommendations for those who prefer to avoid the traffic and stay close to home.
Thanksgiving Games
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-Games-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/22/2001 Thanksgiving Games Transcript As a child, Thanksgiving was the one day in the year when my entire family would play games together. On other holidays, we were together, but with a family as large as mine, – eight children two parents – and […]
Green Bean Thanksgiving
The green beans in New England are ready for harvesting. Time for another story from the late Princess Redwing, recorded in 1981, about the third Thanksgiving in the Native American calendar to give thanks for the green bean.
Princess Red Wing: Strawberry Thanksgiving
This past year, we’ve been listening to a cycle of Native American Thanksgiving legends told by the late Princess Redwing. Here she is in a recording made in Arcadia, Rhode Island in 1981, telling the story of the Strawberry Thanksgiving.
Maple Sugar Thanksgiving
Last November, we heard a portion of a 1981 interview with Princess Redwing, which told about the first Thanksgiving from the Native American point of view. In this excerpt, the late Princess Redwing, who passed away a few years after this interview, explains about the first Thanksgiving of the year for the Native Americans of the northeast.
Thanksgiving Film Releases
The multiplexes are already filled up with this year’s family films for the holidays, and Elaine Needelman has some suggestions that just might save you some time in line.