First 'Dawson's Creek' and now Cape Cod Chips, Wilmington has strong Cape Cod ties
For a generation of teen drama TV watchers, Wilmington and Cape Cod have been indelibly connected since the late 1990s. Across six seasons of The WB’s series “Dawson’s Creek,” the Port City played the role of the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, which North Carolina-native creator Kevin Williamson set on Cape Cod. As the series and its young cast including James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes became phenomenons, Wilmington – for the first time – became fused in the national consciousness with its on-screen role, a feat it later replicated to an even greater degree with...