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In the final installment of the favorite summers series, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with a kayaking couple, Jason Hale and Dixie-Marie Prickett, who are taking this summer to fulfill a dream -- paddling some of America's most challenging rivers.

Barbecue is America's native slow-food movement, and judging by the numbers of new barbecue restaurants across the nation, diners are hungry for the smoky glory of slow-fired meat. See the crew of Sunday's Weekend Edition devour the best Texas has to offer.

Liane Hansen visits pedal-steel player Robert Randolph in the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey. The 23-year-old guitar prodigy is part of a little-known group of church musicians playing "sacred steel", and he's now playing more and more on the club circuit. The Word, on Ropeadope Records, with Randolph, keyboardist John Medeski and the North Mississippi Allstars has just been released on CD.

Many of the short stories in Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail, Bobbie Ann Mason's new collection, "are about people busting out of something," the author tells Bob Edwards on Morning Edition. "A lot of times they're coming home, coming full circle in kind of a zig-zaggy way."

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is a professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Collins' latest work is called Sailing Alone Around the Room.

Scott talks with Jeffrey Flax, a true fan of Cal Ripken.

It turns out that migrating birds like to fly in a V-formation because they get more miles per gallon that way. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports that scientists writing in this week's Nature studied the aerodynamics of tame pelicans. The birds liked to fly along behind the researchers' boat.

For years, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was an anomaly in lower Manhattan. The small church stood across the street from the twin towers of the World Trade Center, on some of the most valuable real estate in New York. But St. Nicholas church was destroyed by falling debris on September 11th. Now, rather than selling their land, the parishioners are pledging to rebuild the church as a monument to those who died. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

Paleontologists may have gotten dinosaur nostrils all wrong. Until now. As NPR's Richard Harris discovered, dinosaur artists up until now had simply guessed where the nostril would appear on a dinosaur's snout.

The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival draws garlic lovers to the Central California town of Gilroy to sample treats like garlic ice cream. But there may be dark days ahead for domestic garlic growers. NPR's Lisa Simeone reports for Weekend All Things Considered.