Posts by WB Magazine
The King: Arnold Palmer
In the spring of 1957, before he became The King, before there was an Arnie’s Army, and before he was golf’s greatest ambassador, Arnold Palmer had only four PGA Tour victories. Number five came at the 1957 Azalea Open. Palmer shot an aggregate 6-under 282 to win the tournament by one stroke over Dow Finsterwald.…
Read MoreGeorge Clark: A Lot to Say
In October 2020, Wrightsville Beach Magazine published a Fish Tale, our first piece of fiction written by then-92-year-old George Clark Jr. Over the last 20 years, George may have been in our magazine more than any other Wrightsville Beach resident outside of our Social Seen pages. He just may hold the distinction of being our…
Read MoreUp Front
In 2009, Richard Johnson was looking for board members for a start-up nonprofit called masonboro.org that was going to take on the uphill task of keeping Masonboro Island from being closed to visitors by policing the trash and mayhem from public drunkenness ensuing every holiday. When Lumina News was founded in 2002, I resigned my…
Read MoreWomen, Wind and Plastic
Once upon a time there was a beautiful young woman named Kiana. She was living in Bocas del Toro, Panama, aboard a 75-foot Polynesian catamaran when she fell in love. It was not your ordinary kind of love. This was between the girl and a boat, the Mara Noka, age 50. It may have been…
Read MoreReeling in The Next Generation of Anglers
Two local fishing camp operators have cast aside financial concerns in favor of building a legacy and making a positive impact on the community. Both Jordan Nason of Wilmington Fish Camp and Christopher Shulstad of Carolina Coast Kids Fishing Camp realized that other endeavors would likely be more lucrative, but the chance to share their…
Read MoreBeach House Eats
There’s something about a warm breeze dancing through a seasoned, wooden beach house that melds things together: days and nights, water and sand, heat and humidity, salty and savory. Each piece of summer produce finds a way to complement another, no matter how different they seem. From juicy watermelon and spicy jalapeño to crunchy cabbage…
Read MoreCalibrate This
What was once a plain, no-frills structure made of steel beams and concrete is today an eye-catching industrial-style office building for a local land development company. Across the street from the State Port Authority, the former North Carolina Department of Agriculture Gas and Oil Calibration Station has been recalibrated into the modern headquarters of a…
Read MoreFruitful
When her husband brought home a bag full of bright yellow lemons, Virginia Wright-Frierson arranged them in one of her mother’s French Quimperware bowls and brought them to her studio. “I said, ‘I need to paint these lemons before we use them.’ I put a real strong light on them, I love strong shadows, I…
Read MoreA Marlin Mystery
Wilbur Bonnet handed his backpack to the mate, Squiggy, and stepped down into the cockpit of the Dawn Lee. The sun started to break over the horizon. Squiggy introduced the three men who would be fishing with Wilbur on this charter. The captain was on the flybridge and had the engines running. As soon as…
Read MoreBalancing Nature
Hunters must purchase and sign a Federal Duck Stamp to legally hunt waterfowl. The nearly $40 million per year proceeds from the stamp and artwork land in the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to preserve over 6 million acres of wetlands vital to migratory birds and other species of animals. Stamps are valid July through June…
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