MISSION MADE BEGINNINGS: MUCH MORE THAN JEWELRY
Taking her first trip to Haiti in 2016, Executive Director of Mission Made Jewelry, Kaitlyn Hopfer met with local artisans and began...
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Feb 24, 20213 min read
STORYTELLING PIECE BY PIECE
From her studio in Wilmington N.C. artist and metalsmith Jessie Yeager creates handcrafted jewelry under the I Like it Here label.
Feb 17, 20215 min read
HALF UNITED: MAKING POVERTY UNFASHIONABLE
THE STORY OF THE BLACK SIBLINGS COULD REALLY BEGIN AT ANY NUMBER OF STARTING POINTS. AN INTERNSHIP WITH TOMS SHOES. A BAG OF DISCARDED...
Feb 17, 20213 min read
THE FLAG THAT KILLED LINCOLN
IT WAS EARLY 1865—THE FINAL DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR. UNION FORCES WERE PUMMELING FORT ANDERSON, A CONFEDERATE PORT ON THE CAPE FEAR RIVER...
Feb 17, 20214 min read
THE COTTON EXCHANGE – OLD BUILDINGS, NEW LIFE
“If we don’t care about our past, we cannot hope for the future…I care desperately about saving old buildings.”—Jacqueline Kennedy...
Feb 4, 20215 min read
THE POWER OF GIVING
The last several years have seen a quiet revolution in philanthropic giving. Beyond the machinery of big business and off the radar of...
Feb 3, 20211 min read
ANCHOR BEADS – STYLE + SOUL
If you had asked Amber Godwin 10 years ago what the next decade would bring her, the prediction would have been a bit off. Through some...
Feb 3, 20213 min read
CHANGING LIVES ONE PAW AT A TIME
PUPPIES, PUPPIES, PUPPIES! It’s puppy cuteness overload at the paws4people® Puppy Development Center in Castle Hayne as seven fluffy...
Feb 3, 20218 min read
HOWIE FRANKLIN: A LIFE IN THE CLOUDS
HOWIE FRANKLIN SPENT 29 YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, REACHING THE RANK OF CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT. 24 YEARS AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE...
Jan 1, 20216 min read
SALON DES BEAUX-ARTES
THIS MONTH WE ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE PARISIAN CAFE, AWAY FROM THE STUDIO OF FELIX NADAR, AND INTO THE STUDIO OF WILMINGTON’S OWN, DAN...
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