October 2021: Searching for 1898 descendantsĪ talk with Jim Downey and Tim Pinnick of the New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project, who are involved with some of the efforts to commemorate the events of 1898, in part by finding the descendants of those who were killed. We talk to the folks at Legacy Architectural Salvage, an offshoot of the Historic Wilmington Foundation, about their work in preserving old building materials for future home renovation and construction projects. November 2021: Legacy Architectural Salvage We look into the Christmas flounder's rather murky origin story. The tale of the Christmas flounder has captured the imagination of Wilmingtonians ever since the story began running in the StarNews every Christmas Eve back in the early 1980s. We talk with longtime Temple members Glen and Beverly Tetterton about the history of the Temple, the history of Jewish people in Wilmington and about the ongoing campaign to raise money to fix the historic building. More: Historic Wilmington synagogue needs 'urgent' repairs, estimate cost at $500,000 January 2022: Temple of Israelīuilt in 1876 at Fourth and Market streets, Wilmington's Temple of Israel is believed to be the oldest synagogue in North Carolina and the 10th oldest in the United States in continuous use. Some photos date back to the 1860s, and together, they help tell the story of Wilmington - the good, the bad and the ugly - in a way words never could. February 2022: Wilmington's historic photosĪ deep dive into more than 15,000 historic Wilmington photographs the Cape Fear Museum recently made available to the public on its website. The study was shelved, and more than two dozen of those structures have since been demolished. We talk with StarNews investigative reporter Matthew Prensky about a 1983 study commissioned by the city of Wilmington that documented more than 100 historic sites and structures of significance to the Black community. In it, he uncovers the history of the long-forgotten railroad line. In January, his first book, "The Wilmington, Brunswick and Southern Railroad," was published by Arcadia Publishing and The History Press. Koenig, the former director of the Wilmington Railroad Museum.
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