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The quirky sport of curling is growing in coastal Carolina
Throwing Rocks
at Houses
By SIMON GONZALEZ
Photography by ALLISON POTTER
SOME 70 PEOPLE packed the rink
at the Wilmington Ice House
on a Saturday afternoon in late
February for the Coastal Carolina
Curling Club’s Learn to Curl event.
Young and old, men and women, all were
eager to attempt the oddly fascinating sport
they had seen while checking out the Olympics
coverage.
“We’ve been watching it on TV and
wanted to try it out,” curling neophyte April
McFarling says. “We thought it would be
cool.”
Paula Chappell also was eager to try,
even though she had absolutely zero
experience at winter sports.
Martisse Maysonet throws
a stone down the ice at
a Learn To Curl event on
Feb. 17.
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