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Cal Lewis shows off some of the strawberries available at Lewis Nursery and Farms on Gordon Road (Photo by Michael Cline Spencer) Decades before the N.C. Azalea Festival blossomed, another plant marked the start of spring in the Wilmington area: strawberries. The plant and its juicy fruit not only were popular at dinner tables, strawberries were part of a thriving local business known as truck-farming.
Instead of being sold only in local markets, strawberries and crops such as lettuce, cabbage and melons were shipped to distant markets, usually via truck to a rail depot, where refrigerated train cars transported them to cities along the East Coast. The proliferation of agriculture in California and its year-round growing season took a huge bite out of truck-farming in the Wilmington area, and the industry faded.
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The traditional annual event has been postponed this year until July 30.
“But we didn’t want to wait that long to celebrate spring in our area,” said Alison Baringer English, executive director of the festival. “That’s a big part of what the Azalea Festival is about.”
So instead, the Hamerskis and dozens of garden party enthusiasts signed up to host their own smaller gatherings and get dressed in their finest party wear and enjoy the local natural beauty.
That’s what the couple did. They haven’t spent much time entertaining this past year, but Carter did pick up gardening as a pandemic hobby so she was showing guests some of her handiwork and a new garden shed built with the help of her father.
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Crowned: Azalea Festival queen makes her way around Wilmington Owen Hassell
In a Azalea Festival different than any other, even the queen s coronation came with a new twist.
Victoria Huggins was crowned on Wednesday as the 74th Queen Azalea, and as part of 74 virtual waves the former Miss Wilmington and North Carolina embarked on a trip around 74 places in Wilmington.
The traditional queen s coronation is typically at Waterfront Park or Greenfield Lake Amphitheater. However, the pandemic meant a shift to a more virtual format.
Huggins received the crown at BB&T, now Truist, on Third Street downtown. From there she made stops on the Wilmington Riverwalk and North Waterfront Park area, Hotel Ballast, Greenfield Lake Amphitheater (where Huggins added her handprints to a neighboring sidewalk), Pine Valley Market and Thalian Hall among others.