From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Jennifer Hickson.

In this hour, hidden beauty, from cosmetic to creative to cosmic.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or at the moth in the ear of the listener.

This first story is from someone important to the moth, our founder, George Dawes Green.

Already a celebrated author when he launched The Moth way back in 1997,

George's continued writing novels.

His most recent one, Kingdoms of Savannah,

has a strong connection with the story you're about to hear.

We'll talk with George in a moment,

but first at Benaroya Hall in Washington,

where we partner with Seattle Arts and Lectures.

Here is George Dawes Boone.

There's a town called Cerrancy in the backwoods of Georgia about an hour inland from Brunswick

where I grew up. And Serency is just a Baptist church and a holiness church and a gas station.

But it was kind of famous in South Georgia because Cernsey had two flashing lights,

about two blocks apart.

So if you were driving at night on Route 341,

about 10 miles out of CERNC,

you'd start to see this blinking,

blink, blink, blink, you'd start to see this blinking. Blink.

Blink.

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