His wife calls him the Wood Whisperer. The tree trimmers he badgers for branches and limbs call him Mr. Stick. The artist currently known as Stickboy — the name his kids came up with — is Jack Lorenz, ...

David Stick, an author and pioneer in recording the history of coastal North Carolina, has died at the age of 89. Mr. Stick, who lived in Kitty Hawk and was the first mayor of the town of Southern ...