A Silent Tornado. A Long, Black Night.

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

2012 / Mary Helen Miller / TCF, USA

Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

A Silent Tornado, A Long, Black Night was produced by Mary Helen Miller for the 2012 ShortDocs Challenge.


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Mary Helen Miller

Mary Helen Miller lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is a producer at the NPR affiliate station WUTC. She started producing radio stories last fall as a student at the Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, MA. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2009 as an art and art history major.


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