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The Cape Fear Garden Club’s Christmas Tea is an annual celebration of beauty and delicious food. It’s also a chance for members to learn new skills and build new friendships.

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The word “print” can mean apples cut in half painted and pressed to paper making the image of a star. Or the raised type of an old printing press inked and set to paper. There’s the Cameron Art Museum’s Tokaido Highway series of Japanese woodblock prints and the museum’s current exhibition of 140 prints from…

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We explain the four most common processes of printmaking: relief intaglio silkscreen and lithography.

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The black granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands in Washington D.C. inscribed with the names of the 58 313 U.S. military personnel who died in service in Vietnam/Southeast Asia and those who are still unaccounted for. The two-acre national memorial located north of the Lincoln Memorial was constructed in 1982. A 288-foot three-fifths scale replica of…

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Cucalorus Festival Comes of Age cuc  a  lor  us: In lighting for film theatre and still photography a cucalorus (also spelled cucoloris cuculoris kookaloris or cookaloris) is a device for casting shadows or silhouettes to produce patterned illumination. It is also referred to as a cookie kook cuke or coo-koo. Fans from near and far…

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Inspiring Seasonal Ideas for Container Planters Warm Welcome Design by Amanda Liss | Julia’s Florist | Home of Mike and Amanda Baker Ornamental cabbage Purple salvia/Mexican bush sage Yellow garden mums Lime green sedum Asparagus fern Small croton Yellow and purple ornamental peppers Small orange pansies Bittersweet vine Cattail accents Trendy Topiary Design by Dillon McLamb | Designs…

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Wholesome Family Fun Everything Polish Every year St. Stanislaus Church in Castle Hayne holds a Polish Festival a family-friendly fun-filled event that attracts thousands to the church grounds. Festivalgoers enjoy authentic Polish food a craft sale and lots of children’s activities and entertainment including The Chardon Polka Band. The 2018 festival was not held because…

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A grandson is given a box of letters. Inside he finds over 150 letters from his grandfather who fought with distinction along with other Wilmington men to liberate the world more than 100 years ago.

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Known for: 9-year career as an NFL kicker Favorite Thing: Nikon D750 camera with AquaTech waterproof housing Connor Barth is used to having lenses pointed at him. It comes with the territory when you’re a professional football player. Barth a standout kicker for Hoggard High School and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill enjoyed a…

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The Louis de K. Belden Modernist Prints Louis de K. Belden spent over 50 years in the investment counsel business in New York and San Francisco and more than 40 years as a serious and discerning collector of American and European modernist prints. He collected non-representational art — art that does not have faces places…

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