On my ride home for the last two nights our local NPR station has been airing John Philip Santos reading excerpts from his Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation. It's an oral history of his family in south Texas and Mexico, and I'm hoping they're going to put out a CD version of him reading it. His inflection blends so well with the material that you can feel the texture of the words as they come pouring out of the radio. He clearly has a passion for this place, and it's not hard to see why.