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In 2009, a famous landmark was slated to re-open in the Triangle.
The Durham Athletic Park on West Corporation Street underwent more than $5 million in upgrades. The Durham Bulls baseball team played at the venue before moving to a new ballpark in 1995.
“The DAP was used for filming ‘Bull Durham,’ the 1988 movie starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins,” The News & Observer reported. “The hit movie made minor league baseball, and the Durham Bulls, so popular, the historic park could no longer handle the crowds.”
To celebrate the re-opening, Minor League Baseball invited local mascots to a free event. The renovated ballpark was expected to be a backdrop for community festivals and a space for training ballpark workers.
Students at N.C. State University had a massive school project — cleaning a 12-ton whale’s skeleton.
Dr. J. Edgar Smallwood, an anatomy professor, worked with students to unveil the bones of a 35-foot sea creature that washed onto an island off the North Carolina coast. The group used tools to clean off the carcass before construction equipment, a ferry and other modes of transportation carried the animal’s remains.
“When we left, you couldn’t even tell where the whale had been,” Smallwood said.
Smallwood didn’t know how the whale died but said it could have been injured in a boat strike. The animal’s bones were taken to N.C. State, making it the “first vet school in the nation with a sperm whale skeleton,” The N&O reported.
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A 50-year-old man with “unmistakable” symptoms died from rabies.
Before his death, Buddy Walker lived in Robeson County, which had reported 99 animal rabies cases since January 1951.
“The man was bitten on the hand by a strange dog about a month ago,” The N&O reported. “The wound healed and he forgot about the incident until he became ill.”
In 1926, cops made a surprising discovery in a Newton home.
Police were at the house to search for someone suspected of stealing watermelons when they heard a noise upstairs. They came back and found another person “standing in the middle of the floor seemingly half asleep,” The N&O reported.
The unexpected visitor — accused of being a “breaker of the law since he was a boy in knee pants” — reportedly had escaped prison.
An investigation revealed he likely had been “sleeping in this attic for some time, for several planks had been so arranged that they could be removed and then placed back without being detected.” The man was arrested, according to The N&O.
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