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No Moonshine, But Bring on the Raw Pigs Feet

Adventure Divas Host Holly Morris Quit a Stable Job to Chase Down Her Filmmaker Dreams

September 18, 2015

Holly Morris is host of the PBS show Adventure Divas and a documentary filmmaker whose newest project is The Babushshkas of Chernobyl. Before participating in a discussion of the American art of risk-taking, she talked turning down moonshine in Chernobyl, fly fishing in Patagonia, and going to her secret happy place in the What It Means to Be American green room.

 
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