Residents of a coastal Oregon city voted to name a park for a 1970 explosion that rained chunks of rotting whale flesh on curious bystanders. By Bryan Pietsch Fifty years ago, a whale carcass washed ...

Fifty years ago, a whale carcass washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, and the authorities wrestled with how to get rid of it. They couldn’t bury it, fearing the 8 tons of rotting flesh and its smell ...