TOPSAIL BEACH – For the 30th year in a row, art and beach music lovers will gather in Topsail Beach, North Carolina at the Autumn With Topsail Festival. Autumn With Topsail takes place, rain or shine, from 8 - 8 on Oct. 20, and 9 - 4 on Oct. 21 on the grounds of the Historic Assembly Building, 720 Channel Boulevard, Topsail Beach. Admission is $5 for adults, or $8 for an adult two-day pass. Children age 12 and...
Moores Creek National Battlefield to Host Informational Meeting on How to Become a Reenactor and Get Involved in Living History Currie, NC - Have you ever visited as historic site or event and wondered "How do I become a Reenactor"? Join us on Saturday, August 25 from 10 am - 12 pm for an informational meeting and orientation as to how to get involved with Living History- i.e. Reenacting and Storytelling...
BURGAW - Pender County Tourism is pleased to release a music video. The video spotlights generations families and friends, yesterday and today, who have found Topsail Island to be a great place to vacation and fellowship. The song is written by the talented songwriter Charles Albertson, a retired North Carolina State Senator. He is widely known as “North Carolina’s Singing Senator.” Albertson...
Sea Turtle Hospital And it’s “déjà vu all over again.” No sooner did we send twelve of our kids out on their own than we had to turn around to wash, rinse and release another sixteen. So back to the beach we went last Wednesday with a caravan of big and small, long term and short term hospital graduates. We were incredibly appreciative that “Sunny” and “Remora”...
And they’re off - at least the first group of twelve of our thirty plus rehabilitated patients. At an early assembly of staff and invited guests Jean began the day with a short ceremony that included memories of volunteers we’ve lost in the past year, commemoration of D-Day (more on that in a bit) the awarding of the figurative hospital “key,” (our dress blue shirt) to new volunteers and finally...
