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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE: Updates, resources, and context

Starstruck!

When a star falls from the sky, Nan Graham is there to catch it.

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These things do seem to happen in the South. In 1940 a rather large meteorite fell and bashed a mailbox in Claxton, Georgia. Nan Graham wonders if it really was a case of an infamous Claxton fruitcake hurled from a passing car...

Commentator Nan Graham's website is nangraham.com
Her WHQR commentaries can be found in her book, "In a Magnolia Minute: Secrets of a Late Bloomer."

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!).