Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world

Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows

Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted

It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over

We are all of us more alike than we are different

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From PRX this is the moth radio hour

The places where we tell our stories can transfigure them. I'm George Dawes green the founder of the moth

And I've been all over the world listening to tales told in the most remarkable venues

The spirit of the place always seeps into the story

For example a summer night in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn

478 acres of marble mausoleums and statuary and ancient oaks

the final resting place of Leonard Bernstein

Sean Michelle Basquiat and Lewis Comfort Tiffany and thousands of others and all of them gathered along with some living souls

For a moth that we're performing in the middle of the graveyard

There are moths and bats and sometimes planes flying out of LaGuardia and we launch with a moment from our own resident spirit Edgar Oliver

It's not a story. He tells so much as an evocation just to draw us all together

Remember whenever you listen to Edgar his voice isn't an act. It's how he sounds every day

I grew up in Savannah, Georgia with my mother and with my sister Helen

One of our favorite places to play all throughout my childhood was in Cemetery's

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