In this issue: A special report on a new smartphone app for filmmakers that also offers free marketing opportunities to Inner Banks towns and businesses; Doris Betts Fiction Prize Finalist Julie Ann Davis shares her short story “Taylor’s Creek”; Aedan Williamson Reid writes about the C. B. Fisk Organ at Greenville’s St. Paul’s Church; in a new column, the IBX Gourmet, Ralph Scott reviews Kinston’s Chef and the Farmer restaurant; Dr. Ruth Kempf, practitioner of Biodynamic Agriculture, is profiled by Diana Dalton; Blackbeard and his pirate crew invade the Museum of the Albemarle; and “IBX Lifestyles” publisher Harvey S. Wooten remembers our friend—and champion of education—Kathy Taft.

Also, in IBX News, UNC’s Kenan Institute and Kenan-Flagler Business School take the lead in two far-reaching Inner Banks economic development initiatives: Hertford waterfront redevelopment and the Northeast IBX broadband initiative.