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Killdeer A resourceful shore bird known for calling its own name By Susan Campbell The killdeer is a small brown and white shorebird that is now busily nesting all along the coast of North [...]

Life and Limb My cabins in the sky By Jim Dodson One of my secret pleasures is a mind-candy house program on Animal Planet called Treehouse Masters, in which an infectiously enthusiastic house [...]

Exploring the Carolinas Early settlers and the Tuscarora War By D.G. Martin “In the middle of a dark September night in 1711 in Carolina, John Lawson found himself captive, tied up and flung in [...]

April is a procession of wonder. Flowering redbud. Rising asparagus. Row after row of tulips and daffodils. When the earliest strawberries arrive, childhood memories of roadside stands and [...]

Tour Houses… Historic Wilmington Foundation’s Azalea Festival Home Tour will feature 10 houses in three historic Wilmington neighborhoods. Among the highlights: the Governor Dudley Mansion [...]

The Heaven of Lost Umbrellas They have to be somewhere; those ribbed and fabric servants who have held off storms so grandly, quietly, and with such solemn unassuming elegance. They come to us in [...]

Grand Illusions By Laura A. W. Phillips Decorative interior painting provided homeowners, especially during the 19th century, with a wide range of options for embellishing their houses. By [...]

With the Author Himself An internal dialog By Wiley Cash  •  Photographs by Mallory Cash Wiley Cash and I have known one another for almost 42 years, but I do not see him very often. Work as [...]

John James Audubon on exhibit again By Jim Moriarty It is such a small space to hold the passion of a lifetime. In a corner on Level B of the North Carolina Museum of Art, John James Audubon’s [...]

Michael Kersting is reshaping our beachfront environment — and the architects he works with By J. Michael Welton If Wilmington architect Michael Kersting ever retires — an unlikely step at this [...]