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St. George's Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland is elebrating Christmas this year with a newly refurbished Estey reed organ, riginally built in 1921. Liane Hansen visits the church to speak with restorer ed Phoenix, Reverand Michael Hopkins, and to hear music of the season played by rganist Theodore Guerrant (ger-RANT [rhymes with ANT]).

This week the government released flood maps that tell New Orleans' residents where they can rebuild, and how high off the ground their houses have to be. Among the residents affected are Colleen and Donald Bordelon, who live in St. Bernard Parish.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green says that both sides of the debate about abortion are afraid to talk about the issue this season -- it's the giant issue both the Democrats and the Republicans wish would just go away.

Tom Ridge served as the United States' first head of Homeland Security after September 11, 2001. He unveiled the color coded threat level system in 2002. In his memoir, The Test of Our Times, he wonders if officials tried to manipulate that system for political gain.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Bob Dole should realize that being challenged by the media is part of any political campaign season.

With Nutcracker season now upon us, the only folks busier than the dancers themselves are the people who make ballet shoes, those flimsy slippers that can support a full-grown person dancing on his or her toes for a whole performance. Kim Kokich reports that ballet shoes are changing to protect dancers from injury and pain.

weekend, residents along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi have been preparing to evacuate their homes and head inland to safer ground. It's a familiar process for the millions of people who suffered through four brutal hurricanes last year.

The corn harvest has started in eastern Kansas. NPR's Laura Ziegler spent the day with one family, which during this first season under the nation's new farm bill, is paying attention to both the grain markets and the weather.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that while this weekend's American Airlines strike lasted mere minutes, it still sent an unseasonable chill throughout the Caribbean, where the airline provides up to 70 percent of service to some islands. Caribbean officials speak of the strike threat - which came at the height of the winter travel season - as a 'wake up call.'

The huge waves that pound northern California beaches in the off-season are known to surfers as "the dogs of winter." A new psychological thriller called "The Dogs of Winter," by Kem Nunn, follows a surfer-photographer on what may be his last assignment. Alan Cheuse has the review. (STATIONS: "The Dogs of Winter" is published by Scribner's. "Kem" in author name is cq.)