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Features

53 Bone Beach Life

Poetry by Stephen Catlett

54 The Need for Shutter Speed

By

Billy Ingram

Bill Chandler’s wanderlust for classic automobiles turns into a creative hobby

60 The Beat Goes On

By David Menconi

From the mountains to the sea

66 We Are the Dreamers

By Ogi Overman

The Gate City has positioned itself for a bright future

69 Daddy Knows Best

By Cynthia Adams

Catherine Harrill finds her forever home in Fountain Manor

79 Almanac By Ashley Walshe triLift ™ is the first technology of its kind stimulating the facial muscles with dynamic muscle stimulation, lifting, and tightening. It also provides a boost of collagen production through a multi-functional process, and it has already become a game changer for uncovering natural beauty.

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MAGAZINE volume 13, no. 3

“I have a fancy that every city has a voice.”

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MARCH 8–22, 2023

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by Cassie bustamante

Eversince I was a child, I’ve been enthralled by magazines. My parents gifted me my very first subscriptions — to Highlights and National Geographic, which I would anxiously await each month, religiously checking our mailbox daily anticipating their arrival. And when I was old enough to walk to the drugstore in our small New England town center, I’d use my own babysitting money to purchase high quality publications — Bop and Seventeen (plus wet n’ wild Pink Frost lipstick— it was the early ’90s). Holding those glossy pages filled with bright images and stories felt magical in my hands.

Years later, as a senior at Wake Forest University, I knew I wanted to move to New York City after graduation and work my way up to editor at a magazine, to be a part of something that always brought me so much joy. However, that same year, I met my husband, Chris, and, much to my college advisor’s chagrin — sorry, Dr. Zulick! — I put my own dream on the back burner.

I’ve spent the last 20 years all over the career map as a retail manager, personal trainer, group exercise instructor, vintage