With the current pandemic and subsequent state of affairs, I am so happy that you have made it onto my website and apparently to my blog! As we have all had to give up our hopes and plans due to COVID-19, I am tremendously disappointed to miss this opportunity to visit Wilmington again and to share the stories of Lumina with so many who remember her. Those who are unacquainted with our premier beach pavilion that reigned on the southern tip of Wrightsville Beach from 1905 to her destruction in 1973 might get a small taste of what might have been in the summer of 1928. That was the year that the Shag was created by Lewis Philip Hall and introduced on the Lumina dance floor in August during the feast of Pirates. The Roaring Twenties was a time of extravagance and change, National Prohibition, the flappers and the changing roles of women, the invisible black population that built Wrightsville Beach, and the social mores of the times.
LUMINA transports the reader to the summer of 1928 to Wrightsville Beach where tourists, middle-class folks, and aristocrats alike are dancing the night away at the beachfront pavilion where they are falling in love—not only with each other but with the grand ballroom itself. Told in alternating sequences between modern-day friends and the newly discovered diary entries and old letters from young siblings on the brink of decadent change, Lumina becomes magic for anyone on the dance floor from eight until midnight. Kip and Sylvie are swept away until they realize that people are not always what they seem.
If you would like to order a copy of LUMINA, please return to the website and click on Buy the Book. I will be happy to send you an autographed copy. Thanks for visiting.
I hope you find the magic!
