Events & Culture - Book Club

Join Ben Steelman of Star-News to discuss notable works by local and regional authors. Meetings are held in the WHQR gallery space at 7:00 p.m. Unless otherwise noted, the authors will join us. WHQR is located at 254 N. Front Street, downtown Wilmington, take the elevator to the 3rd floor. Light refreshments are served.

Save the date!!
Monday, July 13th

Where: The WHQR Studios
When: Monday, July 13th at 7pm

Surfing on the Cape Fear Coast
Guests: Author Joseph Funderberg and Publisher Daniel Ray Norris

About the Book

Surfing on the Cape Fear Coast captures the spirit and history of surfing at Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach in a colorful, engaging and unique way. Skipper was recently nominated for induction to the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame.

About the Author

Joseph "Skipper" Funderberg is a renown Cape Fear Coast pioneer surfer and waterman. He is known for his humor, perseverance and unsinkable nature. He grew up on the Cape Fear Coast, started his apprenticeship in surfing in the mid 1950s, played around with balsa surfboards in the late 1950s and then helped popularize stand up surfing by the early 1960s. Skipper has been writing about surfing for over forty years and serves as the native Cape Fear Coast's preeminent surfing historian. He currently resides on the Cape Fear Coast with his wife and two children.

About the Publisher, Daniel Ray Norris

Skipper is joined by his publisher and fellow author, Daniel Ray Norris. Daniel's first book is heralded as an extremely creative and colorful retrospective of Carolina Beach and the surrounding area. Before publishing history books he wrote his share of scientific documents and articles while he was pursuing degrees in Biology and Tropical Marine Ecology. Daniel is a college Biology teacher, avid photographer, graphic designers and lives in Carolina Beach on the intracoastal waterway, where he considers it to be "the best place on earth."

Save the date!!
Monday, Aug. 10th

Where: The WHQR Studios
When: Monday, July 13th at 7pm

Cecilia's Harvest
by Blonnie Wyche

About the Book

This is Blonnie's second novel. Her first book titled "The Anchor," is a young-adult historical novel about a Colonial Brunswick Town during the Stamp Act protests. "Cecilia's Harvest" carries the story ahead a decade to the American Revolution as a teenage girl finds herself married -- and pregnant -- and WIDOWED -- and trying to run a broken-down plantation outside Wilmington, mostly by herself.

About the Author

Blonnie Bunn Wyche is a returning guest here at Prologue. She is an award-winning short fiction writer, retired school teacher, and "ghost writer" of a book about ghosts on the Battleship North Carolina.