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NPR's David Molpus profiles the new band Mofro as part of our series on emerging Southern Artists. The band's music has been described as "juke joint," but along with the funky beat there's an environmental message about Florida's disappearing swamplands. The band's co-founder, John J.J. Grey, says his music is a good way to groove and get a point across.

Roger Wallace is living proof that much of the very best country music now comes from Texas. But this young singer/songwriter's musical influence reaches back to the traditions of country and bluegrass that prevail in his hometown of Knoxville, Tenn. (11:00) Visit Texas Round-Up Records.

A sea creature known as a brittlestar has a natural fibre optic system far in advance of anything technology has yet devised.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the people who are putting careers and parenthood on hold in order to care for their aging parents. These college students and "30-somethings" are part of a generation born later in their parents' lives - and that means eldercare is beginning much earlier for them.

A new book pays tribute to Antonio Prohias, the Cuban-born creator of the "Spy vs. Spy" comic strip still seen in MAD magazine 40 years later.

NPR's Howard Berkes talks with Flagstaff author Brad Dimock about Glen and Bessie Hyde. The newlywed couple disappeared on a Colorado River trip through the Grand Canyon in the late 1920's. Some people say Bessie killed Glen, and others claim to have met her decades later on the river. Dimock and his new bride built a boat similar to the Hyde's and took the same trip down the Colorado.

Lisa talks to Professor Andrew Levy of Butler University about a little-known early American named Robert Carter, who freed his slaves at a time when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson didn't. Levy's article on Carter appeared in the Spring issue of The American Scholar.

Melissa Block talks to bluegrass master Del McCoury and his son Ronnie. Del McCoury got his big break in the early 1960s, when he was hired by legendary bandleader Bill Monroe to sing tenor and play guitar. McCoury started his own band a few years later. The group's current lineup includes two of his sons, Ronnie on Mandolin and Rob on banjo. The Del McCoury Band has a new CD called Del & The Boys.

In the second installment of Morning Edition's series on emerging Southern artists, NPR's Debbie Elliott profiles Louisiana writer Louis Edwards. Edwards' second novel, N, follows journalist Aimee Dubois she tries to solve the killing of a black high school student. The noir-style mystery takes place in New Orleans' historic French Quarter and in the black neighborhood across town. (8:47-9:36) {Edwards, Louis, N, Plume Books, New York: 1997. ISBN: 0-525-94182-7}

What's on America's summer reading list? All Things Considered asked listeners around the country -- including a rancher, a nuclear engineer, a retiree and an elementary school student -- what theyre reading this summer. Their choices range from best-selling fiction to the history of Egyptian mythology. (2:15) The Dying Ground, by Nichelle Tramble is published by Random House. The music comes from the CD's Sweet Tea, by Buddy Guy, on Silvertone Records Ltd. and I am Shelby Lynne, by Shelby Lynne from Island records.