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Brunswick County artist Mary Paulsen has found the true path to happiness By Anne Barnhill About 25 years ago, I first discovered the artist Mary Paulsen as a roadside attraction in Brunswick [...]

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sprout Clout November is [...]

By Jim Dodson November’s arrival never fails to put me in a grateful mood, even before the far-flung clan assembles around a Thanksgiving table worthy of a king. Speaking of kings, in the spirit [...]

Just new stuff By Clyde Edgerton I’m in the bleachers watching baseball practice. My youngest son, 11, has just started playing — this is his second practice ever — and so far, he likes it. After [...]

BIRD FEEDER I never said we weren’t sunk in glittering nature, until we are able to become something else. — Mary Oliver Perches pique a matter of strategic challenges, this chess game of poached [...]

Nothing lasts forever. Except perhaps the memory of a small town By Jason Mott Bolton, North Carolina. The people who live here have always lived here. They will always live here. That’s how [...]

Beneath the spreading live oaks of Wilmington’s  eclectic first suburb, a remarkable bungalow speaks the language of its imaginative owner whose work is never finished By Isabel Zermani [...]

Whatever Flotilla’s Your Boat If you’ve ever crossed the bridge to Wrightsville Beach and quizzically read the sign “Home of the North Carolina Flotilla,” you are in for a treat. Each year boats [...]

For recent graduate Sandra Gonzalez, each day is one step closer to a way better life By Dana Sachs When the New Hanover High School class of 2016 graduated last spring, Sandra Gonzalez’s [...]

In other words, Oyster Season is upon us By Jason Frye When my mustache gets too long my wife says it looks “walrus-y.” As in, it resembles the whiskers worn by walruses the world over. In my [...]