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Kim · January 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Fresh Strawberries!

It’s strawberry time! Holden Brother’s Produce and Indigo Farm’s fresh strawberries are ripe for the picking. From April 1st until early June the strawberry fields are open for pick-your-own groups. They take groups of any size out to their enormous strawberry fields armed with buckets and let them go to town.

There’s no better way to enjoy juicy strawberries this time of year than by picking your own. It’s a fun way to get family and friends together for a good old-fashioned time.

Holden Brother’s is located at 5600 Ocean Hwy, Ocean Isle Beach, NC. (910) 579-4500. You can visit their website at http://www.holdenbrothersfarmmarket.com/

Indigo Farms is located at 2000 Highway 57 North, Little River, SC. (843) 399-6902. You can visit their website at http://www.indigofarmsmarket.com/

Kim · December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Local Author Releases Book

Local author Tom Rieber has a new book outjust in time for the holidays. If you’re looking for a great murder-mystery, suspense novel for a gift or for yourself, this is it!

The Devil’s Parody is the second book in the Nick Thomas Mystery series. The first novel in the series The Nine Irony was published in 2009 and brought to life a cast of colorful characters that take you on a ride to remember.

The Devil’s Parody asks the question How Far Would You Go For $5,000,000.00? Lured by a five million dollar prize, six consummate gamblers; three men and three women, are trapped by their own greed and find themselves playing against each other for their lives in a deadly game of chance.

The Devil’s Parody is a gripping thriller that pits Nick against recluse sociopath, Sebastian Black, in the remote woods of Vermont where he is conducting a deadly experiment into the gambler’s mind. Are there lines they wouldn’t cross?

Tom Rieber’s third novel in the Nick Thomas Series, Backfire, is a thriller, set in Sunset Beach, North Carolina is already under pen.

$14.99 Devil’s Parody – Nick Thomas Mystery by Tom Rieber

Buy it now at Islands-Art.com

Kim · December 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Miller Pope’s Vintage/Retro Art

Local Artist and author Miller Pope is making high quality Giclée prints of his original artwork available for sale on Islands-Art.com!

While priced as low as $8.00, all prints are titled digitally and reproduced as high quality Giclées.

A light gray mat is also printed around the white area. All prints fit standard frame sizes found everywhere. Pricing is by frame size.

To view all of Miller’s prints and/or purchase these prints click here!

The first series Miller has released were nature and beach scenes.

Other series now released include prints of his illustrations from his four pirate books and a selection of his retro/vintage art from the 19950s and 1960s.

Miller was recently the subject of a feature article in the January issue of Our State Magazine.

Miller Pope was born in South Carolina but spent most of his career during the “golden age of illustration” in the New York advertising and publishing arenas, after getting his start on the Marine Corps’ legendary Leatherneck magazine.

Miller studied figure drawing at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., at the Art Students League in New York City.

His works have appeared on novel covers and in major magazines. He was elected to the Society of Illustrators in 1957.

With his wife, Helen, he moved south in the 1970s and worked to develop The Winds Resort Beach Club and Sea Trail Plantation on the Southeastern North Carolina coast.

To view all of Miller Pope’s prints and/or purchase these prints click here!