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HIS ISSUE has plenty of both. A favor-ite
story is that of the 17,000-acre Green
Swamp Preserve in Brunswick County,
unique to our state with its rare ecosystem,
beautiful flowers, animals and carnivo-rous
plants. I’ve long been a fan of the Venus flytrap, and
Allison Potter’s incredible photographs of the elusive plant
in the wild are breathtaking.
Speaking of Venus, I had a chance to see the tennis star
and her sister, Serena Williams, at the Fed Cup in Asheville
when I went along as a chaperone with 40-plus children
from Lenny Simpson’s One Love program. It was a thrill-ing
day and experience and six of our kids were escorts for
the teams at the opening ceremony (page 18).
On the heels of the Winter Olympics, we look at the
fascinating sport of curling, also known as chess on ice,
going on here in Wilmington.
In All That Jazz, you’ll find there’s life in the jazz scene
in Wilmington. Art imitates life in the paintings of an
acclaimed Wilmington artist, the late Harry Davis.
We introduce a new department featuring area entre-preneurs
with Paper Ladies, spotlighting two artists whose
start-up is a papermaking shop in Wilmington’s Castle
Street Arts and Antiques District.
Just in time for the Azalea Festival we take a look at
where the money raised by this $2.6 million annual event
is distributed in the community.
It wouldn’t be April without our 15th annual Kitchens
That Cook, featuring four kitchens from Kure to
Wrightsville beaches, plus four hot trends for those plan-ning
makeovers or building new homes.
We seal it all with Bean To Bar, a fascinating story
about where chocolate comes from and how it is made
by the growing movement of artisans right here in our
home state, just in time for the Easter basket.
Happy Resurrection month!
Editor/Publisher
Pat’s hair by Frank Potter, Bangz Hair Salon, styled by Rob Asp and EL Morea, Bangz. Makeup by EL Morea.
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ALLISON POTTER
Pat plays tourist at Wilmington’s downtown waterfront. The Venus
flytrap sculpture in the background, at the intersection of Market
and Water, is titled “Southern Hospitality” by sculptor Paul Hill. It was
dedicated in January 2011 by Residents of Old Wilmington who, after
raising the funds for its purchase moved it from its previous location
in front of the downtown post office.
Is it art imitates life,
or does life
imitate art?