April 2020

Word Power With students from 43 different countries, the Cape Fear Literacy Council makes learning to read fundamental By Dana Sachs Yasmin Tomkinson: Executive Director, Cape Fear Literacy [...]

Life In the Slow Lanes In praise of the snail’s pace By Jim Dodson The TED Radio Hour recently hosted a fascinating program devoted to the art of slowing down. The program began with a public TV [...]

Welcoming Myself Home At last By Russell Worth Parker I was born and raised in Georgia, and if man was born of dust, I am surely made of red clay. My people’s bones rest in that iron-rich soil; [...]

Secretary Confidential Please file this under: “What was I thinking?” By Annie Gray Sprunt Sometimes I look back at my life and wonder how I had enough sense to come in from the rain. After [...]

April This month’s five essential dates 4/15 A lively combination of aerobatics, dance, and theater, all set within the confines of an Art Deco hotel and its visitors, Cirque Eloize: Hotel is a [...]

As Wilmington grows, preserving the past while welcoming a new generation of architects gives the historic Port City a unique look and feel all its own By J. Michael Welton Architecturally, [...]

Green Heron The patient hunter at water’s edge By Susan Campbell Think of a heron and a tall, lanky wader comes to mind. However, the green heron is a quite different animal. This stocky bird is [...]

Love in the Heights A preservation-minded couple’s sensitive restoration of a turn-of-the-century house in Carolina Heights By William Irvine   •   Photographs By Rick Ricozzi In a 1908 feature [...]

Mountain Men One exceptional life in politics, another in music By D.G. Martin In 1958-59, two North Carolina mountain boys graduated from local high schools, made their ways to college, and then [...]

By Ash Alder April doesn’t make a grand announcement. She’s subtle. Sort of hums to let you know she’s close. Flutters in the periphery. And when she lands — like the ruby-throated hummingbird at [...]