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Linda talks with Andy Bey, a singer and piano player. Bey has been singing and playing boogie-woogie since he was a child. He became known for his powerful voice and piano work with Horace Silver and Max Roach. After a 20 year absence from recording, he has released a CD of ballads and standards.

Daisy Anderson and Alberta Martin are Civil War widows. Both were in their early 20's when they married octagenarian veterans. Daisy's husband was an ex-slave who fought for the Union; Alberta's man fought for the confederacy. Producer Joe Richman has a portrait of two women reflecting on history and looking back at their lives on the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Bailey White's story concludes.

On Read Across America Day, Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer read the children's book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Producer Matt Ozug attends the annual Rabbit Hunt in Pahokee, Fla. The traditional hunt happens every year when the sugar cane fields are set ablaze, smoking out the rabbits.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Carol Hall, manager of the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Program, for the American Red Cross about what Americans can do to prepare for a possible terrorist attack.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Mark Winegardner, the author and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Winegardner has been pegged by Random House to continue Mario Puzo's Godfather saga.

Profits are rising for oil companies. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts about accusations that those firms are price gouging and profiting from the Ukraine war.

Lawmakers are trying to answer how Congress could function if a catastrophe incapacitated members. A 2017 shooting at a GOP baseball practice, the pandemic and Jan. 6 have made the issue more urgent.

One of the most intense battlegrounds between Republican moderates and extremists is in Idaho, where next month's primary is seen as a national test for how far to the right the GOP can be pulled.