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Jock Brandis Moves On Wilmington’s Renaissance man looks forward to new adventures — and being the neighborhood handyman By Dana Sachs Jock Brandis A lot of people will know you as the co-founder [...]

On mornings such as this — brisk, charged — the mourning doves that line the city wires suddenly take to the air, 50 or more of them in pastel twilight, swirling in wide, graceful circles as if [...]

Peregrine Falcon The return of a legendary predator By Susan Campbell As the mercury begins to fall, it is time to keep a sharp eye out for the return of a consummate avian predator, the [...]

Halloween All grown up Photos and Story by Virginia Holman In the 1970s, when I was little, I lived in a townhouse complex in coastal Virginia that was full of Navy brats. In those days, [...]

Mashies and Mahjong The Brunswick County Golf Tournament and Games Day offers something for everyone — both the sedentary and the golf-inspired. Golf takes the form of a four-person scramble [...]

The Tomato’s Last Hurrah Summer’s carefree days have drawn to a close, but much of the bounty is still with us. Now’s the time to use up every bit of the tomato’s goodness By Jane Lear When I was [...]

Butterfly Effect Chaos Theory revisited A flash of yellow flits across my window Then another and another Cloudless sulphur butterflies winging their way once again to southern warmth. Do they [...]

Humor Me These are difficult times. More reason than ever to ease up and have a good laugh By Clyde Edgerton In a small town stands a stucco building with two signs out front, one large, one [...]

Making of a Marsh Girl Praise for a North Carolina tale By D.G. Martin For almost a year now, Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing has been at the top of The New York Times best-seller list, [...]

The Third Person Project In search of Wilmington’s buried and forgotten past By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash As his 2011 essay collection Pulphead makes clear, John Jeremiah [...]