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CONTRIBUTORS

CC PARKER / WRITER

Raleigh native CC Parker has been sharing her family’s adventures with WALTER readers since 2013. Her article this month about the Beaufort Game Faire was inspired by the event’s visionaries, Wendi and Bucky Oliver of the Beaufort Hotel, and their efforts to create an outstanding sportsman event which benefits the larger community. “Beaufort’s historic charm, paired with its lovely new hotel, is a perfect spot to host this event. There is truly something for everyone.”

JOSHUA STEADMAN /

PHOTOGRAPHER Steadman is a lifestyle, portrait, editorial, and commercial director and photographer in Raleigh. “I’m proud and happy that I got to see the Method community show up to support Mr. Goode as he lost his mother-in-law, Mrs. Katie McIver Parrish, on the same day that he and his family were donating food to others in need. I’m also honored to have been invited to the drive-thru 70th wedding anniversary of Sarah and Swade Sanders a little over a month later. It was a reminder of the positive and lasting impact that people like Sarah, Swade, John, Robert, and Katie have had on the area, and of how far empathy can go in creating and maintaining communities.”

COURTNEY NAPIER /

WRITER Courtney Napier is a freelance journalist from Raleigh. She is the founder of Black Oak Society, a community of Black creatives, and editor of BOS Zine. Her work can be found in Scalawag Magazine, INDY Week, and more. “When I hear the phrase, It takes a village to raise a child, I now envision Method. The Goode family showed me the power of community, even in the face of loss. This article is dedicated to the memory of Method’s dear member, Mrs. Katie McIver Parrish.”

MALLORY CASH /

PHOTOGRAPHER Mallory Cash is an editorial and portrait photographer based in North Carolina. Her work has appeared in the Knoxville Museum of Art, Oxford American, The New York Times, Garden and Gun, and The Bitter Southerner. “I met Ana Shellem on an unseasonably warm December day. The clouds and light changed so dramatically during those hours, revealing the different faces of the landscape and its myriad colors and tones. Although Ana doesn’t own the waterway, she knows every inch of it, and she’s at ease on the water and in the muddy marshes. Being there with her felt like being a guest in a sacred place, and I’m so honored to have visited it.”