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Owned by Phillips Management Group, around 40 acres of land across from UNCW has sat barren since Hurricane Florence forced its demolition years ago. The developer has no plans to sell. (Port City Daily/Mark Darrough)
WILMINGTON A fenced-in plot of condemned, razed land has faced UNCW for over a year. The Seahawk statue that marks the center of campus gazes across College Road, into the gates of what once was The Glen apartments.
Construction on the property broke ground in 1967, just four years after UNCW was authorized to offer bachelor’s degrees. The owners, Phillips Management Group, expanded the project since then, eventually amassing 38.8 acres of land.
It s the everyday items that really hit home, that speak of historical truth. A truth to which we can all relate.
The day I visited Auschwitz I was quite blase. Didn t I know all about it? As a former postgraduate student of modern history and as someone who, like all of us, had seen Auschwitz depicted in film and books and debated on radio and television by world-renowned academics over the years, I thought I knew all there was to know about the horror of the Nazi death camp.
I didn t. I hadn t a clue.
Just come with me for a moment and follow me into the bowels of the camp, walking, as I did on that sunny day a few years ago, in under that famous Arbeit Macht Frei sign.