Hi, I’m Alan Erwin from Amarillo. I’ve just read “The Time It Never Rained” by Elmer Kelton. So, Constant Listeners, picture this: An endless landscape, flat and unbroken, stretching unadorned and undifferentiated to a far-away horizon. The ground is brown, dusty and lifeless; the sky is blue and cloudless. The hope for rain nowhere found, felt or sensed. Now imagine this landscape is in Texas. I know; it’s hard to believe.