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Ham and Yam Festival Back for 32nd Year

April 24, 2016 Kay Whatley

Smithfield’s 32nd annual Ham and Yam Festival is scheduled for May 7, 2016, in Downtown Smithfield NC. The event includes a cook-off, pig and rubber duck races, entertainment, kids’ play area, vendors, and ham and yam foods. A concert by […]

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“Poop” (guano) Core Records 4,300 Years of Bat Diet and Environment

April 12, 2021

An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica’s climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guano Deep in a Jamaican cave is a treasure trove of bat poop, deposited in sequential layers by generations of […]

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The Strange-ness: Colorado Movies-on-Mattresses Event Goes Wrong, Then Goes Viral

August 20, 2019

Been to an outdoor movie lately? Your town’s movie event likely didn’t get national attention like The Bed Cinema’s event in Denver, Colorado this week. Set up as four days of movie-watching on comfy air […]

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The Strange-ness: Wendell NC UFO Sightings

July 27, 2016

Over the past few years, Wendell UFO sightings and strange occurrances have been reported during summer months. The most recent report details a sighting from June 29, 2016. A Wendell residents photographing storm clouds in the […]