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The Wilmington Ballet Company and Dance Theater is the only non-profit professional ballet company in the Cape Fear region and reaches thousands of people in our community annually. For the first time in Wilmington's history, a non-profit local ballet company has achieved a professional division. The 2015 season will debut...
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Every decade since 1956, as a naval officer, assistant to President Gerald Ford, and World War II battlefield tour leader and historian, Wilmington native Wilbur Jones has traveled the world. He has visited some 30 countries from Syria to Kiribati, Greece to the Marianas, and Luxembourg to South Korea, and...
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Traditional sources offer many definitions for the word palaver. These show a turbulent history in the word’s vernacular—from tribal “palaver huts” where Portuguese traders negotiated with African tribesmen in a dialogue between native and invader, to the colloquial hijack: a “fuss or commotion”—palaver comes to us with some proverbial baggage....
