Wilmington, N.C. – February 7, 2023 – In a ceremony at Wilmington’s City Hall, Mayor Bill Saffo, on behalf of…
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A Sentimental Journey is a social history of the life and culture on the Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina home front. The personal story of a burgeoning community, it is the first book covering a specific geographic area this extensively.
In honor of Veterans, every month, Cape Fear Weekend will post a story that highlights a different veteran in our…
The Journey Continues: The World War II Home Front is the natural sequel to the authorâ€s first volume on this subject, the highly acclaimed, nationally distributed book, A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown, winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians 2003 Willie Parker Peace Book Award.
Contact: Jack Fryar dramtreebooks@gmail.com P.O. Box 7183, Wilmington, NC 28406 910-538-4076 History publisher Dram Tree Books announces the release of…
Watch as Wilbur D. Jones, Jr. takes you on a tour of the Hannah Block Historic USO in Wilmington, NC.
Available for Programs and Meetings Growing Up in Wartime Wilmington: America’s First World War II Heritage City The Afrika Korps…
Kure Beach, N. C., July 25, 1943, at around 3 a.m., Germany attacked the United States when a surfaced submarine…
Troops thought the snow was colder than usual. The turkey dinner served at noon tasted good, but otherwise there was…
The World War II service of two lifelong Wilmington friends led them on similar paths from the Normandy beaches to…