Tag: Theodore Roosevelt
Labor Day
It's Labor Day today, and Shelley Fraser Mickle is remembering being a child at a particularly laborious family picnic.
Daniel Boone
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Daniel-Boone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2000 Daniel Boone Transcript It’s the birthday tomorrow of one of the major, mythological presences of American culture, Daniel Boone — pioneer, woodsman, hunter, colonizer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, and in a life that spanned 86 years — a remarkable feat […]
St. Nicholas in May
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?” […]