BONUS: 'The Moth' Presents Jacoby's Skate Down Memory Lane
We’re coming to you on a Saturday with a special episode from The Moth, the arts organization that’s dedicated to true, first-person storytelling. At their live Mainstage events, storytellers work with a director and craft their experiences into a 10-minute story for the stage. Today, one of those stories by City Cast Chicago host Jacoby Cochran. Jacoby recorded this in Harlem in ______ .
Some of the stories recorded on stage air on The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour. This story aired on The Moth Radio Hour in an episode titled “Location, Location, Location” that published on March 6.
If you have a story to tell like I did, you can share it on The Moth Pitchline or attend one of their monthly open-mic StorySLAMs in Chicago.
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