9 Presenting the very best of the Cape Fear region for 14 years. FEATURES ON THE COVER 18 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. By WBM Staff 30 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. By Amy Kilgore Mangus 36 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. By Carrie Davis Conway 48 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 fam-ily memories — swimming, kayaking, fishing, shelling and laughing on the shores of Banks Channel and the Atlantic. By Jamie Penn wbm SEPTEMBER 2014 56 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! By Stephanie Rose Miller 66 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 entertain-ing the most important politicians of her time, to her final moments aboard the Condor. By Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle Jr. 78 Beach Bungalow Glow Not just anyone could entrust an interior designer to redeco-rate an entire home without seeing a single step of the pro-cess. 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. By Lou Anne Liverman 56 As a sophomore attending the Savannah College of Art and Design club fair, I was first attracted to the sport of rowing by a beautiful photograph of a crew at sunrise. I signed up for the club immediately. Twenty years later, the sport still inspires me, calls me out of bed early in the morning and introduces me to some of the best people I’ve had the pleasure to know. Happy 25th to the Cape Fear River Rowing Club! — Allison Potter DEPARTMENTS 10 Up Front 13 Beach Bites 52 Art Treatise 72 Things to Do 97 Social Seens 98 Tide Chart Advertising Sections 28 Health and Wellness 34 Must Haves 64 Financial Profiles www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM 36 30 48 18 66 78
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