There’s always room for a little more good news.
As we look back on 2022, we wanted to share a few of our favorite moments of joy from the year to bring a bit of hope, whimsy and humor to your end of year festivities.
Here are a few bits of weird, wild and wonderful news for you to enjoy from across NPR’s network of newsrooms!.
Back in 2018, Laura Young was in an Austin Goodwill when she found a marble sculpture stashed under a table for $34.99. She bought it and brought it home. But after some Googling, she discovered her sculpture was actually a portrait bust that was previously on display in a German museum in the 1920s and ’30s.
Noodling, which is when one catches catfish with their bare hands, became legal in Louisiana in August. Not like that’s stopped anyone before.
It’s believed that a clam garden — a traditional Indigenous way of boosting shellfish production — hadn’t been built in the United States for close to 200 years. A few dozen people in work gloves and rubber boots gathered on that small island about 50 miles north of Seattle during one of the lowest tides of the year, and rock by rock, brought the practice back.
What they built has long since disappeared beneath the waves, but.
A wave of post-pandemic nostalgia has brought back the pinball machine, an arcade game, typically seen in bars, malls, and now basements.
From competitions to a resurgence of pinball repair companies and a growing number of collectors, KCUR’s Carlos Moreno discusses how this game represents .