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  • A "Hee Haw"-style skit and bourbon tasting are just some of the features of the upcoming "Backwoods Ball" fundraiser at Western Kentucky Botanical Garden.…
  • The Paducah Board of Commissioners issued a statement on Wednesday condemning racial hatred and violence in the wake of events in Charlottesville,…
  • Every answer in this week's puzzle is a familiar two-word phrase or name, in which the first word starts with the letters C and A in that order, and the second word starts with P.
  • While the Civil War made its way through the South, baseball was burying its roots in Paducah. Uniting the community through decades of peace and war, it…
  • A sea squirt's chief claim to fame is that of a pest. It grows on boat hulls and pilings, pumping water in one hole and out the other. But an international team of scientists has recently seized on the squirt as a way to study the evolutionary history of humans and other vertebrates. NPR's Richard Harris reports.
  • In 1932, World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand payment of a bonus. The violence that ensued helped Franklin Roosevelt become president. Paul Dickson is co-author of a book revisiting an overlooked event in U.S. history: the Bonus Army.
  • A curator of mollusks at a natural history museum, listener Kevin Roe shares some of his favorite musical picks: Skip James, Abida Parveen and Nick Cave –- three singers with rich, evocative voices.
  • Smithsonian Institution officials defend their decision to move an exhibit of photos of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to an out-of-the-way location in the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., saying the photo captions advocated protecting the refuge. View some of the photos that sparked the controversy.
  • A Smithsonian exhibit pays tribute to Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa." It's a chance to relish her music and sift through relics of her colorful career, including examples of costumes that came in a rainbow of hues.
  • In his new work of "applied blunderology" Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean journalist and linguistics specialist Michael Erard categorizes blunders, investigates why we make them and serves up a generous amount of slips, malapropisms and even Bushisms.
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