Wrightsville Beach, NC The body of water pictured here is part of Masonboro Sound. My home during my grammar and high school years was about ten miles south of this point in the town of Carolina Beach. I spent many hours on this sound puttering around in a small boat with outboard motor. The boat […]
My family moved to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, in the summer of 1938. I was to call it home until January 1955, at which time my wife and I set up housekeeping in another town. Of course, I have many fond memories of the beach and the nearby city of Wilmington, where I […]
This is the account of my courtship of the lovely Ann Laura McGuire, the woman who would become my wife. I began classes at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in September 1947. The following summer of 1948 I was home at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and working a summer job at the J.C. […]
The family often vacationed at Carolina Beach in the early 1930s, and in the mid 30s Dad had a beach house built there. The cottage was located a mile north of the town center and was separated from the ocean shore by sand dunes. A year or two later Dad had two smaller cottages built […]
Tomorrow a devastating hurricane is expected to strike the southeastern coast of North Carolina. It brings to mind my own experiences in that area some 64 and 74 years ago. My family had moved to Carolina Beach in May or June of 1938. Over the next six years we had a few severe nor’easters, but […]
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