By Emily Williams-Robertshaw When Lusia MacPherson retired from a nearly 50-year career in education, she was ready to go back to school. This time, she planned to take her miniature schnauzer, Mooc, along with her. Once a week during the school year, MacPherson and Mooc visit Greystone Elementary School teacher Melissa Summers’ English Language Learning classroom. According … [Read more...]
Double Time: Mitchell’s Place Looks Forward to Two Major Fundraisers in April
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw During the pandemic, organizations such as Mitchell’s Place didn’t get a break. According to Mitchell’s Place co-founder Nancy Meisler, the facility was closed for about a three-week period at the beginning of the pandemic to adapt to health and safety measures. It then picked back up and continued providing its essential programming and services … [Read more...]
Fruit Forward: BMA Museum Ball Chairs Put a Focus on American Art Collection
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw For the Birmingham Museum of Art, it’s Museum Ball 2020 Take 2. The event was canceled last year because of COVID-19. But mother-daughter pairings Sallie Johnson and Sumner Johnson Rives, along with Garland Smith and Lindsay Smith Puckett will be co-chairs of the event, as they were meant to be last year. The chairs are looking forward to … [Read more...]
Virtual Village 2 Village Run to Conclude March 13
The 2021 GreenWise Market Village 2 Village 10K and 7.5K is already up and running. This year, the city of Mountain Brook’s annual running event has gone virtual. Runners can register at any time through March 13, with $35 entry fees benefiting the Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce. Participants can enter their results by March 13 on the event’s Run Sign Up page and email … [Read more...]
‘Slow Design’: Landscape Garden Professionals to Speak at Upcoming Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens Native Plant Conference
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw Looking back on pandemic closures that began nearly a year ago, Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens Garden Assessment Project Leader Molly Hendry, a Vestavia Hills native, remembers the bad but also the good. “When we shut the gates in the throes of spring, I was still coming to the gardens,” Hendry said, who helped conduct essential work such … [Read more...]