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The Moth Radio Hour: Hidden Beauty

The Moth

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of beauty—internal, skin-deep, and previously undiscovered. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: George Dawes Green encounters many characters while working on a crisis hotline. Archy Jamjun wants to be beautiful like his sister. Annette Herfkens survives a plane crash. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

0:16.2

I'm your host, Jennifer Hickson.

0:18.4

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

0:23.4

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

0:28.2

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

0:34.0

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

0:38.9

George's continued writing novels.

0:40.9

His most recent one, Kingdoms of Savannah,

0:43.4

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

0:46.6

We'll talk with George in a moment,

0:48.2

but first at Benaroya Hall in Washington,

0:51.4

where we partner with Seattle Arts and Lectures.

0:56.0

Here is George Dawes Boone.

1:01.0

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

1:08.0

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

1:17.4

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

1:26.4

about two blocks apart.

1:28.3

So if you were driving at night on Route 341,

1:35.3

about 10 miles out of CERNC,

1:40.3

you'd start to see this blinking,

1:43.3

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

1:45.0

Blink.

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