Apple of my Eye

The multi-tasker of the fruit world apples are perfect for chutneys jams salads sandwiches and of course American apple pies. Enjoy a mountain-grown NC apple straight off the tree and let them shine in these mouth-watering autumn recipes.

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Serene Landscape

Crossing the Figure Eight Island swing bridge feels like driving into a Mary Rountree Moore painting. Through the windshield the savannah marsh sprawls in all directions the way her marsh paintings expand across the interior walls of private homes art galleries and more recently hospital waiting rooms.

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Thinking Outside the Lunchbox

Back-to-school doesn’t have to mean back-to-boring. Wilmington-region food experts prove it with their easy and nutritious packed lunch and snack menus creating spreads to fit any dietary needs and desires.

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She Rocks On

For Beth Quinn a stage IV ovarian cancer diagnosis is not a stop sign nary even a yield as she endures surgeries and treatments with grace and founds a nonprofit in the process. Walk with her as she gains more ground each day on the path of health and wellness.

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Big Daddy’s Wrightsville Beach Memories

There are very few locals who claim 100 years of memories. Jim Wallace Sr. recalls his boyhood years when afternoons were spent walking to Werkhauser’s for a 5-cent soda and nights dancing at Lumina in Big Daddy’s memoir.

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Wrightsville at the Root

Sisters Polly McIlvoy Myrtle Lindsay and Nina Keeley began vacationing in Wrightsville Beach during the 1920s — before the drawbridge was built. Share 85 years of family memories — swimming kayaking fishing shelling and laughing on the shores of Banks Channel and the Atlantic.

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Rowin’ on the River

The members of the Cape Fear River Rowing Club both young and old take oars in hand with blades down for a celebratory river regatta commemorating the club s 25-year anniversary. Ready all row!

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The Lady was a Spy

A white Italian marble cross marks an unassuming grave in Wilmington s Oakdale Cemetery. See how Confederate spy Rose Greenhow’s tale unfolds from her upbringing in a Washington DC boarding house her days of entertaining the most important politicians of her time to her final moments aboard the Condor.

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Beach Bungalow Glow

Not just anyone could entrust an interior designer to redecorate an entire home without seeing a single step of the process. Tour Carol and Tim Wright’s Figure Eight Island getaway to see the leap-of-faith redesign process and how its rooms were transformed from pink to pretty.

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