Episode 8: Meditations on a Correspondence; When Jim Hurst met Jim Hurst

Jim Hurst and Jim Hurst, Vinalhaven, ME.

A provocative exploration of the Hurst family’s unlikely and little known encounter amidst the early aftermath of the accident at T.M.I. that transformed their evacuation experience into an esoteric pilgrimage in which Jim Hurst comes face to face with Jim Hurst—fleeing the danger of Three Mile Island to the mystery and salvation of another island called Vinalhaven. Woven together utilizing an essential cache of recently unearthed audio interviews from the Boy and Island archive. 

Thanks to Amy Davis, Bill Chilles, and Eric from the Vinalhaven Historical society, Maine.

*Contains “Communication” by Info Nympho from the album Info Nympho Volume 2 courtesy of Myth/Sound Records. Copyright Info Nympho. All other music by A. Hurst.