Linda Wilcox:  

Wonderful years at BCHS followed by, as many people experience, ups and downs. Each had a reason, a lesson learn and brought growth. One marriage failed, but from it came two wonderful sons, Joey and Chris. Married a Yankee transplant who has one son, David, and together we have one son, Tony. All the boys are happily married giving us seven wonderful grandchildren, two girls and five boys. My husband Dave is a NC State man with degrees in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. He has worked all over the U.S. and has a number of patents, of which some have hopefully made your life better. He has worked for filtration in the Nuclear Power Plants; invented operating room air filtration systems and the cancer/burn bed for children at St. Mary's Hospital in California. Later, he gave up engineering to open his own company Pelican Yachts and built boats from 12 feet to 21 feet, rowing, outboards and sailing versions. Currently the doors have closed due to illness, but his hope is to build boats again. Right now he tinkers around with his antique outboard engine collection. We lived aboard our 50 foot Ketch for more than 17 years and had the opportunity to take a year off to cruise from California to the North Carolina Coast, where we settled and have been ever since. California living was totally different than North Carolina. Most marinas there are one live aboard to every two boats. Here, living aboard had just started taking off and the m...Expand for more