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BOOK CLUB: Behind the Smile — During the Glamour Years of Aviation

The Bookworm Book Club has hosted many authors over the years but we have never booked an author as far in advance as Bobbi Phelps Wolverton. Bobbi was keynote speaker for a flight attendant reunion in The Villages, and we…

Destiny of the Republic

A tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president. The scene is the Republican National Convention and the Republican Party is sharply divided into two warring factions. After two days of voting and 35 ballots, none of the…

OUT+ABOUT: From Kitty Hawk to Mars

PHOTOS: MARY ANN DESANTIS + outerbanks.org The impossible happened on the sand dunes surrounding Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville and Wilbur Wright altered the world of transportation with their first manned flight, one that lasted a mere 12 seconds.…

laurie sullivan: All her world’s a stage

PHOTO: FRED LOPEZ This is the first in a series of articles featuring talent from local theaters. In the fall of 1948, a group of theater enthusiasts met to discuss starting a community theater. They found a former ice plant…

OUT+ABOUT: Girlfriends Guide to Paris

PHOTOS: Tony+Mary Ann DeSantis Forget the same-old beach condo this summer and head to Paris, France, for an unforgettable experience. With lower airfares and a decent rate of exchange for the Euro, there’s never been a better time to visit…

Jeffrey Ryerson: A Bit of Red, Yellow, and Faith Make Great Art

PHOTO: Fred Lopez Jeffrey Ryerson came to the expressive art he does now by way of biomedical illustration, which was his major at the University of Tennessee, the school of abstract expressionism and the premier school for theory. “My specialty…

OUT+ABOUT: Antarctica — My Adventures on the Coolest Continent

PHOTOS: Dr. Mark Rothschild After reading “Shackleton’s Way” about British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition, I was anxious to do my own photographic exploration of the highest, driest, coldest, and most isolated landmass on earth. In 1915, Shackleton and…

LOCAL TALENT: James Quarterman — Raising a Paw for Good Training

It’s not a dog’s life, but dogs are James Quarterman’s life. The busy dog handler is finding ways every day to make the world better for dogs and their humans. Many of his graduates are working dogs that help humans…