The anniversary of one of Oregon's most "explosive" events is coming soon and the Lane County community that made history 56 ...

Florence's weekend festival honors the infamous 1970 incident with film screenings and live music from The Exploding Whales.

Florence is once again celebrating the town's strangest claim to fame — the day officials tried to blow up a beached whale and sent blubber raining down on a parking lot. The coastal Oregon town will ...

In 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon used dynamite to dispose of a beached whale, but the explosion sent chunks of blubber raining down on spectators and nearby cars.

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