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

The Hope Chest

The Lane Hope Chest
The Lane Hope Chest

"The gift that starts the home"

By Nan Graham

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Wilmington, NC – I remember keeping doll clothes in my big sister's miniature cedar hope chest back in the day. You can still find those promotional reminders of Lane Hope Chests in antique shops.

Nan Graham's first collection of WHQR commentaries, "Turn South at the Next Magnolia," has been re-published and is now available. 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!).