December 2018

To Market, to Market Going NC Local presents an Artisan Holiday Marketplace at Mayfaire Town Center. In addition to artisans’ works of sculpture, pottery, ornaments and clothing, there will be an [...]

A Changed Man How Florence and a turkey shoot made me a better soul I, your faithful Lord Wilmington, am a changed man. I dare say the gasbags in Britain’s House of Commons, which I ruled as [...]

Heard Not Seen The life and work of a gifted interpreter By Dana Sachs Soontaree Davidson Job: Freelance interpreter and translator First moved to Wilmington: 2008 Favorite spot: The access to [...]

Our Friends and Family Tree Faces that speak to the heart By Bev Moss Haedrich It was our first Christmas back in the South. I sat cross-legged on the sofa leafing through a large cache of [...]

Our Christmas Sing A tradition that measures the years By Margaret Maron   •   Illustrations by Laurel Holden John thought it was probably the Christmas of 1978. Scott said, “No, I think it was [...]

Catalog of Memories No room at the inn for the Wish Book By Tom Allen Say it ain’t so. Not at the most wonderful time of the year. Recently, Sears announced they were closing 142 stores before [...]

The Gift of Grace In the storms of life, she reminds us what it means to be human Story and Photographs by Virginia Holman When our fox-faced, curly-tailed dog Susie passed away at age 16, I told [...]

An Ode to Winter Surf’s up. And so’s the moon By Fritts Causby The sky hung wet and low and dreary. A steady rain and a steely gray overcast blanketed our little city that day, Monday, the day of [...]

The Times of His Life With echoes of O. Henry and Mark Twain, Bob Warwick’s stories recall the city he loves and helped shape By Barbara J. Sullivan    Photograph by Andrew Sherman You might be [...]

Christmas at the Bellamy Mansion The iconic symbol of Wilmington’s past By William Irvine  •  Photographs by Rick Ricozzi The Bellamy Mansion is a stately survivor. Since its completion in 1861 [...]