CAPE FEAR AERIALS
PLUNGING FOR A GOOD CAUSE
HOUSE MOVING THE HISTORIC EWING-BORDEAUX COTTAGE is scheduled to journey from its
current home at 405 N. Lumina Ave., where it has stood since 1924, to its new
home at the Wrightsville Beach Historic Square on Jan. 8, where it will serve as a
second building for the town’s Museum of History.
“That’s what we’re planning to do, literally if the creek doesn’t rise,” museum executive
director Madeline Flagler says. “It‘s very exciting. It’s a really great opportunity.”
The cottage was sold in February 2017 and donated to the museum by the owners, who
plan to build a new home on the site. The museum then had to raise the funds to have it
moved.
“We’ve raised enough to move it. We still need to raise money to refurbish it and to
make it more friendly to exhibits,” Flagler says. “We have told the town of Wrightsville
Beach we will be open in July. At what stage we will be will partly depend on funding.
But we will be open.”
The Ewing-Bordeaux Cottage is scheduled
to move to the Wrightsville Beach historic
square Jan. 8.
The museum plans to use the cottage for beach-themed interactive exhibits including fishing net weaving, wooden boat building and surf board
shaping, and to house an expanded Waterman Hall of Fame.
Wolfe House Movers will transport the cottage using radio remote-controlled hydraulic dollies, which are more maneuverable than a truck.
“If a street is one width and the bridge is another, they can adjust in the middle of the move,” Flagler says. — Simon Gonzalez
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FEW HUNDRED
PEOPLE will
assemble at
Wrightsville Beach
on Jan. 1 to celebrate the New
Year by taking a dip in the chilly
ocean.
The Wrightsville Plunge
is a charity event to benefit
Communities In Schools of Cape
Fear. Participants pay $25 for the
privilege of running into the brisk
water.
While the waters off the
Carolina coast never get frigid,
plungers are in for a bracing swim.
Even if it’s an unseasonably warm
About 500 people participated in the Wrightsville Plunge on New Year’s Day 2017.
day, water temperatures could be
in the 50s.
“It’s still chilly,” says Louise Hicks, executive director for Communities In Schools.
Participants and supporters begin to gather at 10:30 a.m. between Public Beach Access Nos. 36 and 37, near Crystal Pier. The Plunge takes
place at noon, with an after party that includes live music at South End Surf Shop.
“It’s so much fun,” Hicks says. “People come dressed up. We have prizes for best costume, the person who’s traveled the farthest. It’s like a big
party on the beach, and they are supporting the youth of our community.”
This is the third year for the plunge. There were about 300 people in 2016, and 500 in 2017.
“We’re hoping to grow that again,” Hicks says. — Simon Gonzalez
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