Posts by WB Magazine
It’s a Matter of Life
Northside’s Earl Jackson swimming pool is the home of NSEA Swim, a Wilmington nonprofit dedicated to giving all children and adults the opportunity to learn to swim. NSEA (Northside Elite Aquatics) began as a swimming club. Coaches and officials soon realized that the Northside community where they practiced, at 750 Bess Street, was not bodily…
Read MoreIn Memory
Kevin Walker, a beloved member of the Wrightsville Beach community, lost his courageous battle with prostate cancer on May 24, 2022. He was 66. He was born into a U.S. Marine family in Craven County, North Carolina, and made Wrightsville Beach his home since 1973. His was a true entrepreneurial story. At the University of…
Read MoreBlast Off!
The tiny, historic town of Southport is preparing to host about 50,000 people for its annual North Carolina 4th of July Festival, set to begin with a welcoming ceremony on June 30. In addition to the parade that will take over the streets at 11 a.m. on July 4, the festival will include a variety…
Read MoreCupcakes for the Battleship
Each year Apple Annie’s Bake Shop carries out an operation to support the USS North Carolina. During the week of July 4, the bakery creates a signature cupcake with a red, white and blue swirl. A $1 donation is made to the battleship for each one purchased. “We usually end up being able to present…
Read MoreHonoring Veterans
Vietnam-era veteran Rich Elsen kisses his wife, Harriet, at Wilmington International Airport upon arriving home from an Honor Flight on April 30, 2022. Elsen was one of 69 veterans traveling with Honor Flight of the Cape Fear volunteer guardians, including Cathy Doty (middle), for the one-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C.’s war monuments. A crowd…
Read MoreUp Front
One of the fun quirks of summer holidays is that when you put your extra flags and bunting out for Memorial Day, you can keep them out for Flag Day (June 14) and then keep ’em going right into July for our nation’s birthday celebration. I don’t know about you, but I am giving thought…
Read MoreGot a favorite food?
The foods we love are celebrated every day. There are hundreds of foods and drinks being celebrated throughout the year, recognized with a day to consume and appreciate them. The all-encompassing National Food Day falls on Oct. 24 each year. It was first observed in 1975, created to encourage people to eat more nutritious food.…
Read MoreThe Sea, the Sky and the Lines of Life
Lisa Creed’s artwork can be found displayed at the Ritz Carlton Pavilion in Washington, D.C., or at Duke University’s Office of the Provost and Hart House — otherwise known as the president’s residence — and in the backdrop of television shows One Tree Hill and Under the Dome. Her art has received national awards, been…
Read MoreSurrender
Rap, tap, tap goes the riff on the cymbal as the piano plays mezzo forte and the alto sax and trumpets file in with a response. The composition of compelling music can be transcendent. It can enable one to escape, to dream, and to perhaps surrender. The same can be said about the composition of…
Read MoreLost and Found
In the early 1950s, America was returning from a wartime foundation to a peacetime economy and the prosperity that marked the years preceding the Second World War. Factories that had been geared to produce aircraft and ammunition retooled to manufacture automobiles and appliances. And a jump in post-war births resulted in what would be called…
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