The Telfair Museum is hosting a rare opportunity to listen to some of the best story tellers that New York City has to offer. While we southerner’s like to think that nobody tells a taller tale than a low country bull-sprayer, this group can spin a pretty fair yarn as well. Case in point one of Georgia’s own, George Green from down around St. Simon’s Island way has carried his gift for gab viral about a decade ago when he moved up to the Big Apple. His robust story telling group that he founded, The Moth, is a going great guns as we like to say in the southland it would appear based on the excerpt from their website below:
"The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island, Georgia, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales on his friend Wanda's porch. After moving to New York, George missed the sense of connection he had felt sharing stories with his friends back home, and he decided to invite a few friends over to his New York apartment to tell and hear stories. Thus the first "Moth" evening took place in his living room. Word of these captivating story nights quickly spread, and The Moth moved to bigger venues in New York. Today, The Moth conducts six ongoing programs and has brought more than 3,000 live stories to over 100,000 audience members."
Show up this coming Thursday July 23rd for some mighty fine story telling at the Telfair Museum overlooking – wait for it, now – Telfair Square. Cocktail Hour commences at 7:00 PM with story telling to start at 8:00 PM.
Posted by the Savannah Vacation News Team
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