Creative Collaboration
I’d like to offer thanks to the many fine craftsmen who helped
us create our passive home featured in the May issue (“Back
to Basics”). We made many new friends in the building pro-cess,
and it was most special to also incorporate the creativity
and expertise of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Robin
Stanfield. She helped me pull together the interior design and
I cherished her opinions and suggestions for everything includ-ing
tile, paint, themes for rooms, wallpaper, window treatments,
rugs/carpeting, hardware selections, any new furniture I needed.
Working with Robin enhanced my building process just as her
friendship has enhanced my life. Our home is special because of
the creative, careful collaboration of many friends, old and new.
— Jane Ellison
Art Appreciation
Thank you for the article that Kathryn Manis wrote about me
for the May issue (“Knowledge and Feeling”). Her gifted writing
told my story accurately and I’m so pleased with the coverage
the magazine so graciously provided. I feel very blessed to be
included in your beautiful magazine. Thank you for acknowl-edging
me and my artwork! — Janet B. Sessoms
I loved the article on Janet Sessoms and her amazing artwork
(“Knowledge and Feeling”). What an inspiration she is to so
many! She is a shining star for her University of North Carolina
Pembroke alma mater!
— Wandre Elkins, 1970 UNCP Graduate,
UNCP Alumni Board Member
letters to the editor
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Island Paradise
Thank you for your excellent article
on Hutaff and Lea islands. At Hutaff,
the draw was Elmore’s Inlet — a shallow,
peaceful, lovely system as clear and beau-tiful
as anything I have ever seen on our
coast. Bugs, tide, shoals, rips, shallows,
stingrays, sharks, and snakes kept most
folks away. But there were cool, beautiful
days, and remarkably fresh nights filled
with the scents of wild woods, flowers,
and ocean breeze, and it’s gone now, of
course. With it went much of the old
maritime forest, estuary, and salt flats
that it supported — replaced now by vast
fields of muddy Spartina. The abundance
of wildlife once there is hard to describe.
All things change — just a matter of
time. The vivid memories of that gor-geous
system, as it was back then, burn
in all of us who were so fortunate to visit
there. — Robert Rehder
PHOTOS BY ALLISON POTTER
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WBM june 2017
Women in Business
influential women at the top
salvaging
the Past
new life for historic
building materials
Kitchens
that cooK
three beautiful,
trendy local kitchens
azalea Festival
gardens
a sneak peek at gorgeous
spring gardens
Reality
fantasy
salvaging the Past
new life for historic building materials
azalea Festival gardens
a sneak peek at azalea gardens
&Surreal sketches Old of
Baldy
OnPoi nt
The Down East Trappings of Eagle Point Golf Club
AlohA,
Wrightsville
outriggers at the beach
the socrAtes of
Wilmington
the gentle wisdom of Dr. B. frank hall
the lifeBlooD of
north cArolinA
the rivers that run through it