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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

Happy Birthday, WHQR

"We weathered our birth in the year 1984, the Orwellian year when Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize and the first Macintosh computer was introduced. It is also the year the African Republic of Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso."

By Nan Graham

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-835956.mp3

Wilmington, NC – I celebrate all year long with all of the WHQR family, and I invite you to join in the twenty-fifth birthday party all this year!

Nan Graham's first book of WHQR commentaries, "Turn South at the Next Magnolia" is being re-published and is now available again. Her website is nangraham.com

Nan Graham has deep roots in Alabama and Carolina soil. She graduated from Tuscaloosa High School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with an AB in English. She obtained her Masters degree from The Citadel in Charleston. In 1995 Nan began broadcasting her bi- weekly commentaries on WHQR Public Radio in Wilmington. She continues these bi-weekly broadcasts along with teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the Honors College. She has taught for thirty-eight years...everything from first grade to graduate level university courses...(the last is far easier than first grade!).