November 2017

David McCullough’s speeches deliver gentle sermons on the American character By Stephen E. Smith “If we are beset by problems,” David McCullough wrote in a 1994 commencement address, “we have [...]

Your service provider is here (or somewhere) to drive you crazy By Clyde Edgerton You know your phone service provider? The organization that helps you with cellphone matters in their store, a [...]

Polka Party! The 20th annual St. Stanislaus Polish Festival features a great day of family fun. Delicious Polish food — kielbasa, pierogis, kolachi, kruschiki, strudels — can be washed down with [...]

By Ash Alder Sweet, bare-branched November. Sweet hearth fires and gray dawns and Indian corn. Sweet, sweet pumpkin bars. Many consider this 11th month to be an auspicious time for manifestation. [...]

Talented North Carolina architects recently spent two days rethinking the future look and function of the Port City — knitting us together one neighborhood at a time By J. Michael Welton For two [...]

How the innovative Youth Ambassadors program shapes lives and grows a more sustainable world Story & Photographs By Virginia Holman When you’re sitting in traffic on Market Street, shopping [...]

The last of the pears dot the neighbor’s yard, their taut green skins giving way to brownish pulp. Yellow leaves flung from wind-tossed branches scud across our lawns like golden clouds — the [...]

The life of a Cape Fear oysterman Story & Photographs by John Wolfe On an Elysian autumn day in late September, I find myself perched on the bow seat of a jon boat, rocketing down the [...]

Until frost arrives, the skies are full of them By Susan Campbell Perhaps you have seen them: huge flocks of small birds, wheeling over open water or marsh, twisting and turning in deliberate [...]

This December, after a job well done, George Edwards retires from the Historic Wilmington Foundation — an organization that has saved our architectural heritage By Dana Sachs George Edwards and I [...]