up front
March is a special spring month; flowers are
blooming and expectations are high
for the days and months to come.
Our spectacular light-filled
cover expresses just that
optimism, combining the
best of beachy with historic
surroundings. It is simple, yet so sophisti-cated
and the aqua blues mirror March’s
aquamarine birthstone.
Easter falls in March this year,
and this issue brings to fruition our
hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind artful eggs
and our coverage, culminating in the
annual gala at the Air Wilmington
Hangar, to raise money for literacy
efforts in the Cape Fear region.
Prepare to be moved by this wonderful
story. This year’s March 2 event, titled
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” is the perfect
backdrop for the live auctioning of
artist-designed eggs contributed by
Bill Donaldson, Sybil West, Dumay
Gorham III, Michelle Connolly,
Fritzi Huber and Alan Perry.
And you’ll have all month to experi-ment
with our Easter bread recipes
found in a piece playfully called “Risen.”
Therein you will find whimsical
honeyed bunnies and British hot
cross buns, Polish babka and Greek tsou-reki.
Tsougrisma, the traditional Greek
egg-cracking game enjoyed by
local families, including the Saffos,
sounds like too much fun to pass up.
In “Double Vision” you’ll find
Michael Moorefield’s and Michael
Kersting’s two parent homes with tiny
knockoffs on house sites along the
Intracoastal Waterway and Pages Creek.
Working in radically different styles for
different sets of clients, each architect
achieved a unity of design that is breath-takingly
displayed in this feature.
Speaking of breathtaking, H.H. Brimley
found himself short of breath on the day
he heard about a 54-foot sperm whale
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beached on Wrightsville’s strand in
1928. Find in these pages the story
of this whale named Trouble, then the
largest skeleton of its kind in America,
which now hangs in the North Carolina
Museum of Science and History.
Pat Bradford seen at Bangz Hair Salon where
the artist-designed eggs are on display prior
to the auction.
Along with our guide for the novice
gardener to get out and get going in the
yard now, you’ll also find a guide to
Carolina Bays. Seen from the sky, they
resemble a strange northwest-southeast
oval depression in the landscape. On foot,
they are characterized by a swampy,
wetland ecosystem host to the Venus fly
trap and other exotic species. Journey
above and beyond the Carolina Bays to
learn the origins of this mystifying
geographic water-filled land formation.
The month of my birth is here, and
this issue already makes it memorable.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA CURRY. HAIR/MAKEUP BY BANGZ.
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