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Purls of Wisdom in Wilmington | Our State

Dec 30, 2024 | ourstate.com | Jill Lucas

A gathering of the Cape Fear Knitters has the high spirits of a family reunion. In their monthly meeting spot — the third-floor conference room at Novant Health New Hanover Orthopedic Hospital — members soon find their seats and take up current projects. Some comprise just a few rows of stitches; others spill luxuriously across knitters’ laps. Appreciative murmurs overtake the gentle click-clack of knitting needles as a show-and-tell reveals elegant garments made from glistening artisan yarns.
6 Tips for Planning a Sugar Mountain Ski Trip

Nov 26, 2024 | ourstate.com | Robin Sutton Anders |Jill Lucas |Leah King |Jo Grey

SPONSORED BY Kimberley Jochl doesn’t remember the details, exactly — she and her twin sister were just 2 years old — but she knows how her first time on skis went down. “We lived in western Massachusetts and were bundled up in big, warm coats and ski pants,” she says. “We had these red pom-pom hats that had a strap under the chin.
A Starry Season | Our State

Nov 25, 2024 | ourstate.com | Alan Hodge |Jill Lucas |Leah King |Jo Grey

For more than 50 years, a dazzling chandelier has hung in the dining room of the Executive Mansion in Raleigh. Only recently has its remarkable backstory been fully illuminated.
’Tis Always the Season

Nov 25, 2024 | ourstate.com | Emiene Wright |Jill Lucas |Leah King |Jo Grey

The foyer of Margo Scurry’s home in northeast Charlotte is a portal into a kid’s Christmas dream. Four-foot-tall nutcrackers stand at the entrance to the living room, just the right height to look a child straight in the eye. A glowing tree twinkles nearby. And the entire room, anchored by a two-story brick wall, is festooned with hundreds of Santas — caroling, golfing, riding scooters. She even has a huggable, life-size Santa.
United We Farm | Our State

Aug 26, 2024 | ourstate.com | Jill Lucas |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet

Lori Stanistreet drives two hours just to deliver a few cases of fresh-picked produce. Starting at her home in Sanford, she loads up at a farm in the Cumberland County town of Godwin, then continues on to Burgaw, in Pender County. Her destination: Feast Down East, a regional hub of 42 farmers across 14 southeastern counties. Stanistreet doesn’t mind the drive. On nice days, she stops at parks along the way and walks her German shepherd-mix service dog.
Sheltering a Community at The Filling Station

Aug 26, 2024 | ourstate.com | Jill Lucas |Brad Campbell |T. Edward Nickens |Katie Schanze

A few weeks after Hurricane Florence devastated Jones County in September 2018, Millie Belfort couldn’t resist the urge to take a walk down to the Trent River. She was stunned to see that the churning flood waters that had rushed beyond its muddy banks still lapped up Main Street, swamping her adopted hometown of Pollocksville. Uneasy about wading into the polluted water, she watched as a group of people gathered just outside of a former propane business, near the spot where the surge had stopped.
The Modern Series Giving a Glimpse Into the Past

Mar 25, 2024 | ourstate.com | Jill Lucas |Andrea Weigl |Katie King |Katie Kane

Growing up in Pinehurst, siblings Andrew Soboeiro and Suzanne Newman knew about the lectures on complex medical topics that their father gave to fellow practitioners, but they never got to see him deliver a full program for his peers. So when Dr. Michael Soboeiro was scheduled to give a talk at the North Carolina Museum of History, they were not about to let the fact that they both live hundreds of miles away stop them from attending.