Cape Fear ACapella group performed at our December 2023 DAR meeing. They were very talked.
Jane Izod leader of the Cape Fear A Capella Group introduced the singing group.
Greg Aaron is a cybersecurity expert and a licensed private detective. He was previously the editorial director at Running Press, a trade book publishing house. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, he is currently researching the lives of several members of the Pennsylvania militia. Greg Aaron is the leading expert in the country on Revolutionary-era comics.
Every nation has an origin story. In the popular imagination, the American Revolutionary War has been a tale of heroes who were forged in adversity, overcame an arch-enemy, and carried their new-found virtue and power into the world. In other words, the Revolutionary War is a perfect match for superheroes. In the early days of the comic books, some superheroes drew their power from the War of Independence, giving inspiration to Americans who were living through another dire conflict. The superhero comic book was born of war. The genre took off—quite literally—with the introduction of Superman in Action Comics#1, which hit the newsstands on April 18, 1938, and became an immediate hit.[1] By that month, Nazi Germany had annexed Austria, and the forces of Imperial Japan had pushed far into China. As the world descended into darkness, comic book creators hearkened back to America’s past for inspiration. The times called for patriotism, and the magic of the comics could deliver it.
DAR doesn’t allow us to share the names of our members any longer on our blog. So, it’s hard for me to tell you about this lovely new lady who moved her membership from Boone to Raleigh and now to Brunswick Town.
But, here goes: she lives in Southport. However, she is originally from Philadelphia, PA. She grew up there with her parents and two brothers until her mom and dad decided to move to Scotland. It was a place her parents had fallen in love with. Sadly, her father had a tragic hunting accident and passed away there. The family returned to Pennsylvania where Waydell was sent to a boarding school, the Hannah More Academy in Maryland.
In time, she went to college, got married, and had two children. The American Dream.
She became a nurse specializing in neonatal intensive care. While living in Florida, she worked out of Shands Hospital, Florida’s premier teaching hospital in Gainesville. She then moved to Raleigh and worked at Duke for several years, again in the neonatal intensive care unit, before moving to Boone where she worked out of the health department as the child service coordinator. After that, she retired.
It was then that she had time to get involved in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), something she had wanted to do for years. And she has found so much that fascinates her. Since joining DAR, she’s also joined Colonial Dames, Daughters of the Colonials, Daughters of the Colonial Wars, 1812, Huguenot Society, National Society of New England Women, Holland Dames, Daughters and Sons of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Society.
But even with all the joy she found since retiring, she also found sorrow. “My husband and I were married for 52 years,” she says, “but he passed away.”Joseph, her husband, died at age 76 in May of 2021, and that left a huge hole in her heart. For a time, she lived with her son, Christopher, in Boone where he works as the head of recreation for Appalachian State University. But her daughter Kimberly asked her to move back to Raleigh to live with her. Soon after, Kimberly told her mom she had received an offer to become the manager of catering at the Bald Head Island golf resort. The move to Brunswick County has turned out to be both of them. That was in June of 2023.
“I love Southport. I’ve made so many new friends since I’ve moved here!’ And this is our beautiful new member. You’ll have to meet her at a meeting. Ask her to tell you her name. We would tell you here, but we can’t.
Information provided by our public relations chair for the Brunswick Town DAR Chapter.
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