Fossils show butterflies came before flowers / G3
The family of Dorothy Giles Ngongang, left, bought a South Carolina house across from where they were sharecroppers as children. She returned for a reunion with her family to the house in December. With her is her son, Decker, and granddaughter Neale. “They are on the land where they used to pick cotton,” Decker said. “I recognize the significance of that; they recognize the significance of that.”
The Dispatch is so much more than ink on paper. We are a TV station, a radio station and a vast trove of data and other information — all at your fingertips on your phone, computer or smart TV.
One place you can see that vividly is on The Dispatch YouTube channel, which has been a portal to view Dispatch videos for the past seven years. And oh, have you viewed them.
This week, we watched the meter eclipse 10 million views.
The most popular video on the site shows a Columbus Zoo and Aquarium gorilla playing hide-and-seek with a 2-year-old boy. It has more than 2 million views.
In the Top 10 is a wide range of topics, including a COTA employee explaining a bus driver training simulator, and a southern Ohio man who uses a tiny camera to peek into ant colonies.
Ted Williams, the formerly homeless man with the Golden Voice, has two videos in the Top 10. He became an international internet sensation in 2011 after a Dispatch video of him panhandling went viral. That video, produced by Dispatch videographer Doral Chenoweth III, has more than 160 million views on dozens of YouTube channels.