Event: Pamlico Writers’ ConferenceWhen: April 5 & 6, 2019Where: Turnage Theater, 150 West Main Street, Washington, NC Have you ever dreamed of writing the great American novel? Ever wanted to pick a publisher’s brain for the keys to the book industry? Ever wanted to hobnob with published writers and learn whatever you could from them? You…
Story and photographs by Derek Cadzow. Printed in the September/October, 2006, issue of Cary Magazine. Reprinted here with permission. Rows of beautiful orchid flowers dot a sea of green vegetation, some large, some small, some with multiple blooms and some with only one — colorful and exotic. You might be tempted to visualize the deepest…
Story by Derek Cadzow; photographs by Derek Cadzow and Renée Cadzow. Printed in the March/April, 2006, issue of Cary Magazine. Reprinted here with permission. “I didn’t even know there was a nightclub in Cary!” Cary entrepreneurs Frank Lazzaro and Frank Stoltman wish they had a nickel for every time they’ve heard that phrase. But it…
Story and photographs by Derek Cadzow. Printed in the September/October, 2005, issue of Cary Magazine. Reprinted here with permission. What is it about sea turtles that compel hundreds of people, young and old, to line the beaches to watch 13 of them returned to the wild? Perhaps it is some form of empathy with the…
Surrounded by the green majesty of Grandfather mountain on a blue North Carolina summer’s day, young Susan Tapp waits, poised and prepared, for the right note on which to begin an age-old traditional Scottish dance: the Highland Fling. The judges watch carefully, but Susan is ready. She’s been a student of Scottish dance at Cary’s…
Story and photographs by Derek Cadzow. Printed in the March/April, 2006, issue of Cary Magazine. Reprinted here with permission. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a group of Mazda Miatas, Porsches, older MGs leisurely drive down the road in formation, when all at once the starter’s flag snaps and 30-odd engines roar to life in one…