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Kentuck Artist and the "Moon Winx" connection

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Gordo, Alabama – The 40th annual Kentuck Festival for the Arts takes place this weekend in Northport. The show draws folk artists from all the Southeast, but there are local artists as well. Perhaps none is more celebrated than eighty year old Glenn House. Even if you've never seen his art, it's possible you've driven past it--especially at night. On University Boulevard in the Alberta neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, sits the Moon Winx lodge. The neon sign outside this motel is considered a Southern icon with the crescent moon face and the word winks spelled W-I-N-X. Glenn House designed it in 1956. APR News Director Pat Duggins sat down with House to talk about it.

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