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Oyster Fest SurfOff Sept 8&9

This weekend! The 32nd Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival Oyster Fest Surf Off will be held at Ocean Isle Beach, on September 8th and 9th, 2012.

It will be held on the right side of the pier at the access where the church services are held.

For entry forms please visit OIB Surf and Java ( 6278 Beach Dr. SW, Ocean Isle Beach), call 575-6277 or visit www.esa-snc.com. (click on “entry form and points tab” at the top of the webpage to download the snc entry form).

 

Event Location Ocean Isle Beach, to the right of the pier at the Beach Access.
Date/Time Information September 8-9

Fees/Admission

Visit www.esa-snc.com for entry forms and fees.  (click on “entry form and points tab” at the top of the webpage to download the snc entry form). 

Contest sponsored by:

Historic Wilmington Home Tour

From April 14th, 2012 through April 25th, 2012 starting at 1pm, the Historic Wilmington Foundation Azalea Festival Home Tour will feature houses in downtown Wilmington, NC, that have been selected for individual appeal and architectural or historical significance. All proceeds from the Home Tour will advance the Historic Wilmington Foundation’s efforts to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear region. Since 1966, the foundation has successfully saved more than 200 historic properties from demolition.

Admission for the event will be $25.00 per person. Tickets for the event are available at Harris Teeter stores, the Azalea Festival Office (5725 Oleander Drive), the Historic Wilmington Foundation Office (2011 Market Street), and online.

For more information contact Laura Trivett by phone: (910) 762-2511 or by email: [email protected]

 

 

Iron Man 3 in Wilmington

Iron Man 3 will soon begin filming in Wilmington NC! Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle may soon be spotted around the Wilmington area in upcoming months. The action-flick should put about $80 million into the local economy.

The Wilmington Regional Film Commission has been busy keeping it’s eye on 10 productions of different sizes for the year, and this time it landed a BIG one. With the General Assembly’s approval in 2009 of increased incentives, the regional film commission is seeing more activity, and “Iron Man 3” could signal producers of other big-budget films that this is the place to be. It looks like Hollywood East is a title Wilmington is glad to keep.

 

 

 

Shipwreck Diving NC

Everyone fascinated with the sea will enjoy reading this documentary on local shipwreck diving. The book features stories and pictures about ships that have sunk offshore this area since the early 1800s.

Local authors Fred R David and Vern J. Bender created this 66 page paperback book.

$14.95 Buy it at: https://Islands-Art.com

People from age 4 to 104 will love this book, for twelve good reasons:

* It provides short stories of the last voyage of ships that sank offshore of Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Holden Beach, Oak Island, and Baldhead Island
* It provides actual pictures of ships that sank here, such as the Sherman, the Hebe, the Raritan, the Governor, and the City of Houston
* It provides GPS #’s of many shipwrecks off southeast North Carolina
* It provides color pictures and short descriptions of exotic marine life that inhabit local shipwrecks
* It reveals where local Shark Tooth Beds are located and describes the extinct megalodon that once roamed here * It discusses the local Cypress Tree Forest on the ocean floor
* It provides numerous embedded YouTube video hotlinks to bring to life local shipwrecks and marine life
* It describes how, when, and where to catch spiny and slipper lobster here
* It gives important information for diving local shipwrecks, including depth, visibility, currents, type of artifacts, and marine life
* It describes local shipwreck history, from pirate ships to Civil War blockade runners, to World War II U-boat victims, to the recent Valour sinking * It tells the story of Frying Pan Tower and Frying Pan Lightships
* Help us preserve the history of this area by making this book available to others.

$14.95 Buy it at: https://Islands-Art.com

Miller Pope’s Book of Pirates

piratebookFrom Captain Kidd to Blackbeard to the pirates of the orient . . . From bloody battles to walking the plank- from blunderbusses to cutlasses, With nearly 150 original illustrations, this volume is sure to please and inform pirate fans of all ages.

Buy this book at:

https://Islands-Art.com

• Race for Riches: a history of the origins of piracy
• Greed and Gold: a pirate’s life aboard ship and in battle
• Tools of the Trade: weapons, vessels, and pirate culture
• Rogues and Raiders: profiles of pirates through history
• Other Pirates, Other Times: the past and future of piracy
• A Roster of Infamy: a list of pirates and their vessels

“The illustrations are incredible, from the actual pirates to their ships, battles, maps, tools of the trade and treasures. For every generations’ fascination with pirates and the exotic and exciting life they supposedly led, this book will satisfy that hunger for the actual and imagined part of pirate lore.


Miller Pope is as exceptional a writer as he is an illustrator, writing with the visual in mind, always crafting his words from an illustrators’ perspective and then backing that image up with the very picture the words so masterfully created.”

– Island Living Magazine

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