Holden Beach
Some may think it’s not much of a place, but it’s filled with love and memories for me.
As a 17-year-old from Delaware, all I had ever known about the beach was going to “the shore” in New Jersey or Delaware, where the water never got over 70 degrees and the beaches were filled with people. I didn’t know the beach could be any different.
As a freshman at Campbell College, I met my future husband. His family owned a cottage at Holden Beach, N.C. He invited me to go with his family to the beach one weekend, and I learned what a real beach was like.
I have spent the last 44 years going to Holden Beach. It is my “Little Piece of Heaven.” My husband was raised going to Holden Beach with his family. They started their own traditions that have been carried over to our family: Chamblee’s famous barbecue chicken, swimming in the Intracoastal Waterway, digging holes in the sand at the beach, looking for falling stars at night are just some. We watched our children take their first steps, begin to talk and grow up in this place of wonder.
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