Blackbeard’s Booty

By designloud | January 27, 2014

Treasures recovered from North Carolina waters from the pirates flagship Queen Annes Revenge travel around the state this year. The exhibit launches this month at the North Carolina History Center at Tryon Palace in New Bern.

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Incarceration to Transformation

By designloud | December 22, 2013

The Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center home to nonprofit mostly faith-based outreach groups has turned over an old leaf by transforming the former New Hanover County jail into a place of hope.

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The Diary of John Barry

By designloud | November 24, 2013

John Barry III of Oak Island made it to his 70th birthday without knowing much about his fathers family history. Those chapters were reclaimed during a recent family reunion. The missing chapters have been pieced together with hundreds of vintage photographs accompanied by his grandfathers hand-written journal.

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BeachBites

By designloud | January 27, 2014

Sweetheart Shell Samplers:
Sailors Valentine
By Caroline Hood

Art Show:
Southport Legacy
By Amber Adams

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Homemade for the Holidays

By designloud | November 24, 2013

Sara Butchers Hoggard High School Cooking 1 students have reinvented the old fashioned bake sale. Assembling ingredients for three holiday sweets they packaged their gifts in Ball jars decorated with colorful Christmas cotton.

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Beach Baroque

By designloud | December 22, 2013

Mark and Kelly Batson make no apologies for their remolded mid-century beach ranch. The marriage of rusted core ten steel exterior details industrial I-beam framing sleek contemporary finishes and traditional furnishings has minted a look for the local design/build couple.

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International Thanksgiving

By designloud | October 28, 2013

After Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to plant and harvest their crops nearly four hundred years later Dr. Tom and Cindy Simpson break bread with University of North Carolina faculty and friends and more than 100 international students in giving thanks at their home on Hooker Road.

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Fire Works

By designloud | January 27, 2014

The Cape Fear climates fickle weather patterns provide perfect temperatures for outdoor living. Inspired by the stone age field stone blue stone and limestone modern families retreat to backyard hearths to crack an oyster or pop some corn around an outdoor fire this winter.

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