If you were born and raised on the Carolina coast, fished, swam and spent most of your life outdoors in the Carolina sun, then you...

A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed Topsail Island, there was a Texaco station right across from the IGA Shopping Center. Well, it...

As you get older you start paying attention to the things that people actually do, not just what they say they will do. You pay attention...

Nearly 80 years ago the peaceful farming area of Holly Ridge was turned upside down by the building of Camp Davis. The place grew rapidly...

I guess you have to be really old to remember this place, Pop’s Pavilion.

Long before there was a Thomas Seafood, there was a Thomas Tackle Shop and it was one of the first tackle shops on Topsail Island. It’s...

Christmas on Topsail Island, back in the old days, was a hoot.

Most people know that the island was once home to nine fishing piers...Now we are down to only three.

There are a lot of things that Ed Medlin did for our little community during his two terms as mayor.

On the 21st of October, late in the afternoon on a warm sunny day, four friends boarded a small private plane...

Surf City came to be in 1949 when a group of men...met to determine what that specific part of Topsail Island was to be called.

The swing bridge has been gone nearly three years and I, for one, truly miss it...