Carolina Curious

A type of red clay soil, known as the Cecil series, is so culturally important to the region that in the 90s, the legislature named it North Carolina’s official state soil.

WFDD reporter April Laissle wants to know why the Greensboro Pride Festival takes place in September. David Ford speaks with Executive Director Jessie Taylor to find out on this edition of Carolina Curious.

WFDD listener Laura Allred used to live in Greensboro and work in Asheboro. On her daily commute up and down 220, she saw big, red and black Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, or PART, buses taking her same route, and wanted to learn more.

In this edition of Carolina Curious, Eddie Garcia scours the archives to learn about Greensboro's Ireland House.

A listener kept driving through the same eerie patch of fog. The explanation for it ties into one of North Carolina's most famous ghost stories.

For this week's Carolina Curious, a listener wanted to know how the Gold Rush impacted North Carolina, and if there any active gold mines in the state today.

It’s been about 80 years, but Clyde Ingle still remembers the time he came across the Germans on his family’s dairy farm.

WFDD listener Scott Kaminski passes by enormous flower beds on his daily highway commute between High Point and Lexington. He has long wondered how the program began, and who keeps it going. WFDD reporter David Ford finds the answers to those questions and more on Carolina Curious.

On her regular drive into work, WFDD's Rachel Thomas watched as an artist filled a massive white wall on the Reynolds Central Distribution Center in Winston-Salem with a unique design — a monochrome pattern of densely packed stars, hearts, smiley faces, and more.For this week’s Carolina Curious, our guest reporter wanted to know — what’s the deal with all the doodles?

Recent storms in the Piedmont Triad have caused fallen trees, flooding and power outages, sometimes wiping out traffic lights and signals.Davidson County listener Bill Herndon asked why these signals aren't equipped with backup batteries. For this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz turned to the North Carolina Department of Transportation to find the answer.