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A battleship on the river
from capefearcoast.com Wilmington, day -17: Updated 8/18/10 with new photo: The battleship USS North Carolina is moored in the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, NC.
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New guy in soggy Wilmington, NC
Here in Wilmington we have been soaked, drenched, waterlogged, sodden and just plain wet all week. Over 20 inches have fallen since Monday of this week — as much as typically hits during a serious...
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Aw, shucks, folks
Well, Helen and T.C.’s little boy made the news again. The Wilmington Star-News did a profile of me in today’s paper, complete with a picture that looks like I’m trying out for “WHQR 3-D”. Here ’tis....
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Who says it doesn’t snow in Wilmington, NC?
Not me! Here’s proof, from my office window. The city is pretty much shut down today. Typically these don’t stick — they tell me — but precipitation is supposed to last a while and it’s not going to...
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Surrendering to my inner geek, part 2
Another geek alert: Last time I wrote about digitizing LPs. Here’s my newest techno toy: the Zoom H2 digital recorder. I used this on a recent trip to Virginia for the Wayne Henderson Music Festival...
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Good economic news and bad (in 3 parts)
This week’s roundup: 1) At a local Wendy’s I ordered my usual (baked potato with margarine, small chili, no cheese, medium unsweet tea) and got a bonus. It was 5 cents less than what I’d been used to...
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A sunny day in post-Irene Wilmington, NC
Wilmington StarNews We got through Hurricane Irene in pretty good shape, all in all. There was a lot of wind and rain from the storm, which made its closest approach to Wilmington (about 80 miles) in...
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Blasted hemlocks
Update: more photos from this year’s trip; video on my Facebook page. This is a hemlock in North Carolina’s Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, blasted to smithereens by the U.S. Forest Service. All along...
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