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Growing up around Seattle, Ainsley Seago said she never saw a firefly until she visited Hershey as a teenager. These days, she watches in amusement as her 10-year-old son, Maxwell, enjoys catching lightning bugs and releasing them. “How can you not catch them?” said Seago, associate curator of invertebrate zoology

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is adapted from a story in “Appalachian Places,” a digital magazine published by the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE The third season of KZUM’s Soup and Songs concerts features a variety of Lincoln performers monthly through March 25, 2018. The intimate concerts also feature dinner, including soup by Open Harvest. Admission is $10 per person. Purchase tickets here on our website. Each event begins at 5:30 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m. Seating is limited to about 45 people, so […]

Various subvariants of the Model 147S flew more than half of all Lightning Bug sorties between December 1967 and the end of the war in 1972. The four longest-serving Lightning Bugs were Model 147SCs, most notably “Tom Cat,” which completed 68 missions, compared to just three missions for the typical Lightning Bug. Teledyne Ryan photo…

Singer Songwriter Ben Folds to Play the VETS in Providence Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.by Alexa Criscitiello Set to appear LIVE on US stages for the first time since the pandemic hit, Ben Folds has announced a series of concerts that include solo piano and orchestral performances hes dubbed his "In Actual Person Live For Real Tour." The tour stops at The VETS in Providence Friday, September 24. Tickets are on sale Friday at 10am and can ...

By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com Stokes County native Caleb Caudle will play an outdoor concert in the parking lot behind The Arts Place on Saturday. Zack and Kendra Harding, performing as the Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs, will open the Saturday show. Caleb Caudle’s latest album, called ‘Crushed Coins,’ came out in February. DANBURY — Caleb Caudle says there’s no place he’d rather be on Saturday night than in his native Stokes County playing music. “I grew up i...

“Like a tiny galaxy descended into the forest”—new species of firefly found Image courtesy Radim Schreiber/ fireflyexperience.org and National Park Service Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the  Clyde Sorenson had a hunch. Archival data from the North Carolina Entomological Museum’s collection had led him to suspect that some of the fireflies atop Grandfather Mountain in western North Carolina might be more than the a...

OUT OF OFFICE: Pete Albietz Learn more about the man who keeps the Devils running behind the scenes, Devils Vice President of Hockey Communications and Team Operations by Pete Albietz / Special to NewJerseyDevils.com Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Except today.  If youve ever wondered what and who keeps Oz running, then wed like to introduce to the wizard...

And reinvent the street light, imagining roads that need to electricity to guide drivers in the dark but glow like lightning bugs. he put starry night underneath your feet and tires on a bike path. >> hello. that is cool. the most fitting van gogh quote i could find is normality is a paved road. comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. seeing this, you got to wonder what vincent would think of his homeland trying to completely redefine normality. but unless youre a ted talking celebrity de...