Posts by designloud
Chasing the Edge
Jaruco the 90-foot sportfishing yacht is setting records for speed to and from offshore fishing grounds.
Read MoreChasing a Dream
There’s a moment right before you wake from a dream that artist Mike Rooney strives to capture. You’re not really awake but you’re not still dreaming either. All you can remember is the good parts of the dream. “The sweet spot ” as he calls it. Not quite the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock but…
Read MoreWB’s Female First Responders
Patrol Officer C. Ficarro With an inimitably warm smile and easy charm Wrightsville Beach Patrol Officer C. Ficarro brings a calm sense of gentility to her role as she enforces the town’s laws. It all began in her earlier career working with kindergarten through fifth-grade students as a physical education teacher and a high school…
Read MoreFavorites: Kim Lawrance
Team USA Professional Strongwoman Kimberly Lawrance explains how the barbell has shaped her life along with the support of her community to make her stronger mentally and physically.
Read MoreTunnel of Art
The occasional threat of snow does little to discourage tourists from flocking to the nation’s capital in mid-March. But many museum and park visitors might not know that largely out of sight and out of the weather pedestrians may feast their eyes on a trove of art some produced by young North Carolinians. Sprawling pedestrian…
Read MoreFull Circle
When art gallery owner Merrimon Kennedy decided to leave Wilmington she was longing for a change — something radically different from her life here. She was used to the hustle and bustle curating art shows at her gallery and not having a lot of time of time to paint. She had heard over and again:…
Read MoreRebuilding After the Storm
Hurricane Florence hit area public gardens hard but their daily visitors are back enjoying spring’s wonder in these gardens the storm’s destruction wonderfully mitigated and — in some cases creating a canvas for new beauty. Airlie Gardens suffered the loss of an incredible 275 trees when Florence spun relentlessly overhead for days in September 2018.…
Read MoreFull Measure of Devotion
Lloyd Whitfield “Whit” Moore served in the battlefield combat zones of Vietnam as a Navy combat medic and was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V.
Read MoreShorts
The Greatest Catamaran Distance Race on the Planet Following the Rhumb line Some of the most talented courageous sailors of all time will sail to and from Wrightsville Beach’s strand this month as part of the Worrell 1000 Reunion Race a treacherous offshore 1 000-mile catamaran race up the East Coast that has returned after…
Read MoreBreathing Rooms
A unique energy efficient hidden treasure
lies just beyond the Intracoastal Waterway
behind a stand of indigenous live oaks.