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Art Treatise: The Architecture of Art
Dr. Fritz Kapraun’s award-winning career as a lecturer and researcher in botany and environmental science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington was nearing an end. With retirement just over the horizon he began to consider his post-professor years and knew he needed something to keep him busy. That’s when he had his “why not…
Read MoreAppreciating New Hanover: Buyers come back with confidence
Take a look at the top-selling properties the market leaders and the trends in our annual look at area real estate sales.
Read MoreLees Cut Adventures
Eight- and nine-year-old boys waking before dawn and piloting skiffs to Pembroke (now Landfall) to hunt for duck and marsh hens. Getting caught by low tide and not getting home until 3 a.m. Using your neighbor’s dock and walking across their yard to the beach. Fishermen keeping an eye out for your children. All of…
Read MoreThe Healing Power of Soup
From Warrior to Healer
Stephen Golf feels fortunate that he wasn’t wounded while serving combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine Corps infantryman. Plenty of his buddies were. Some of them made the ultimate sacrifice for serving their country. “Every unit over there was taking casualties ” Golf says. “The general theme of combat is that not…
Read MoreThe Healing Arts
Priscilla Long Whitlock’s vibrantly colored oil paintings are featured in hospitals around the country.
Read MoreMedical Pioneer
When you know what you want to do with your life you set out to do it even as a child. From a young age Sarah Taylor knew she wanted to be like her parents a dentist and physician serving the people of Stanley a small town in Gaston County North Carolina. “I decided I…
Read MoreA Tradition of Excellence
On May 22 1900 the first bricks were laid for the James Walker Memorial Hospital. The state-of-the-art facility named for the Scottish expat who made Wilmington his home opened two years later. The hospital closed in 1966 but its legacy lives on particularly through the ongoing impact of a renowned nursing school that produced generations…
Read MoreStill in the Fight
The Wounded Warrior Battalion-East at Camp Lejeune helps Marines transition from the Corps to civilian life.
Read MoreA Foundation of Hope for Wounded Heroes
A non-profit organization that partnered with the Wounded Warrior Regiment from its inception continues to support injured service members from all military branches. At the same time that Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell saw a need for an integrated unit to care for wounded Marines his wife and her friend had the vision for a group…
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