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Trending: Boards Breathe Hope 65 Roses
In the frenzy of a bidding war during the 2014 Pipeline to a Cure Swansboro’s Emily Sylvester — mother of a 13-year-old daughter Betsy a surfer girl living with cystic fibrosis — sat at a table with her college friend Jenny Keenan. Sylvester says she and Keenan have remained close over the years even going…
Read MoreTrending: Summer Blues
Summer Blues Cape Fear Blues Festival Turns 20 Blues man Dave Fields will travel from his home in New York to Wilmington to headline the 20th annual Cape Fear Blues Festival in late July. “He’s a consummate performer; he really knows how to entertain ” says Lan Nichols the event’s organizer. Fields a native of…
Read MoreArt Treatise: Flaming Acrylic Sands in the Carolina Heat
Astonishingly vivid and bright Cameron Smith’s beach paintings reveal layered patterns combining texture shape color and design: the smell of damp sand the ruffle of a sun umbrella in a light breeze the slouch of a sunbather’s back after falling asleep while reading a magazine. “It has such complex subject matter ” Smith explains. “I…
Read MoreThe Mystery of the William H. Sumner Uncovered
In 1919 the William H. Sumner a three-masted schooner bound for New York ran aground on a sandbar near Topsail Inlet North Carolina.
Read MoreWBM Day in the Life: Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue
Witness a day on the job with WBOR an award-winning team of professional lifesavers rigorously conditioned and trained to excel in nationwide competitions and protect the island’s tens of thousands of summertime beachgoers.
Read MoreThe Greatest School Under the Sun
In 1953 Williston Senior High School welcomed students into its hallways becoming a source of academic excellence community unity and pride.
Read MoreHome of Distinction: Tree House
A long and winding unpaved road snakes south through the wooded landscape. Take the left hand turn at the fork off Quail Run and just beyond a screen of trees a sun-drenched clearing opens. Here a cedar shingled three-story seacoast home awaits the members of the Hardy family. “We love that it really connects us…
Read MoreSubmerged in Summer
Subterranean {Hidden or Secret} In 2003 when Kim and Patrick Edwards moved into their European-style chateau in the Summer Rest Road neighborhood the front yard was landscaped with meticulously clipped boxwood hedges leading to a door framed by Confederate jasmine vines. The back was a swampy mess sloping sharply down toward grassy wetlands. Their children…
Read MoreSavor: A Genteel Sufficiency
My sanctuary is located on South Lumina Avenue. One can find respite from formality on a Wrightsville Beach porch — a great place to do nothing. I relax here nostalgically thinking of genuine comfort communion feasting and fellowship. My father John Thomas Denny was a veneer and plywood industrialist. He cut the timber and built…
Read MoreTalking Trash: What’s in Your Beach Bag?
On any given summer morning Wrightsville Beach’s strand sparkles with bounty for treasure hunters: whole sand dollars million-year-old shark tooth fossils colorful seashells from an array of species so vast it can’t be counted. But for every treasure there’s something else nestled in the sand and churning in the waves that has reached insurmountable numbers:…
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