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CHANGING OUR WORLD TOGETHER ONE FASCINATING STORY AT A TIME.
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FEATURES ON THE COVER
Love AffAir
A WWi romance
A Time Like No Other
The tri-county 2018 real estate market
StAte of the oySter
A harvest Update
ChoWder hoUSe
rules & recipes
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One of the fabulous rooms with
a view in the top-selling home
on Wrightsville Beach for 2018,
24 West Salisbury Street over-looks
Banks Channel.
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PHOTO BY JO ANN TOMASELLI
48 A Year Like No Other
Get ready for an aesthetic and quantitative look back
at the dynamic year in real estate in New Hanover,
Brunswick and Pender counties, one when the lights
literally went out for five or more weeks. The area
dropped into a sellers market before the gangbuster
sales year was arrested, still ending as a solid one,
closing out with modest gains in most cases. See the
numbers and read insights from more than 19 top real
estate experts. By Pat Bradford
86 Accentuating the Light
En plein air or in the studio, at her easel or leading
a class, Joanne Geisel lives an artful life, but how is
she fulfilled? Her oeuvre includes impressionistic
landscapes inspired by her low country surroundings,
evocative still life studies and abstract reflections on
mankind’s greatest questions. By Kathryn Manis
92 Chowder House Rules
Dip your ladle into its maritime history or build your
own recipe from scratch — from the first whiff of sau-téed
onions and bacon to the last sop with a morsel
of cornbread. Sample the earthy, seaborne delights
found in simmering pots and steaming bowls of this
hearty seaworthy stew. By Colleen Thompson
DEPARTMENTS
13 Up Front
14 Shorts
16 Favorite Thing
42 In View
86 Art Treatise
92 Savor
97 Tide Chart
ADVERTISING SECTIONS
24 Gift Guide 89 Gallery Walk
18 WWI Love Affair
Wilmington’s World War II historian digs deeply
into his keepsake chest of treasures to share his
parents’ personal mementos from another World
War, telling the story of their poignant courtship,
long-distance romance and blissful marriage,
unwrapped in handwritten letters and lovely photo-graphs,
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like a heart-shaped box of chocolates.
By Wilbur D. Jones Jr.
28 Port City POWs
A chance encounter with a historical plaque led
an inquisitive team of Cape Fear Academy students
to explore the fascinating story of hundreds of
German prisoners of World War II who lived and
worked in the Port City, and how citizens came to
befriend them during the turbulent 1940s.
By Katie Meine, Aurelia Colvin, Ella Forkin and
Audrey Dahl
34 One Man’s Trash
Old refrigerators, clunkers, railroad cars and even
broken ships — the stuff of litter, you might think
— but wait. When sunk at sea, all provide an
underwater haven for finfish, their ecosystems,
and a bounty for offshore and inshore anglers
hooking for a fresh catch. By Kyle Hanlin
38 Saving the Oysters
Since Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and The Carpenter”
walked the beaches, until days of yore when
harvesters raked the briny middens, the once
ubiquitous oyster has inspired writers to opine and
scientists to lament the demise of their degraded
habitat. The great oyster comeback debate contin-ues,
unfaltered, in modern times.
By Mary Margaret McEachern
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