Carolina Curious

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.

Secret tunnels. A mysterious brick. Machine guns??For this edition of Carolina Curious, we traced the rumors under Winston-Salem and found ... more than we expected.

Summer is in full swing, and it's a perfect season to attend baseball games with close ones. In this week's Carolina Curious, DJ Simmons looks at how one local team got its name.

For this week's Carolina Curious, listener Tyler Foster wanted to know how the culinary tradition of Lexington BBQ got started.

The seemingly odd pronunciation of a popular Winston-Salem neighborhood, Buena Vista, has one of our listeners wondering why people say it that way. In this edition of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz talks to residents, a librarian and an expert in linguistics to find the answer.

With the new play, "Good Night, and Good Luck," war correspondent Edward R. Murrow is back in the public dialogue. In this week’s edition of Carolina Curious, Bethany Chafin looks into his roots and early days in the Piedmont.

A brutal cold snap in January left hundreds of the state’s turtles cold-stunned. And a gender imbalance among new hatchlings has sparked concern among researchers. All this had WFDD’s April Laissle wondering: How is climate change affecting the state’s sea turtle population? For this edition of Carolina Curious, she traveled to a sea turtle hospital in Surf City to find the answer.