By Sarah Kuper Organizers for the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center at UAB have selected a family to chair this year’s VIVA Health Starlight Gala, rather than one individual or couple. The seven co-chairs are the children and children-in-law of Mike and Gillian Goodrich. Elizabeth and Mike, Mary and Braxton, Ali and Charles, and Gracie have received the honor because of … [Read more...]
Royal Family: King Bill Bowron Has Deep Ties To the Beaux Arts Krewe
By Donna Cornelius Bill Bowron has gone from being a “new boy” to Krewe King. Bowron was invited to join Birmingham’s Beaux Arts Krewe shortly after he returned to his hometown in 1991. He’d been living and working as a banker in Savannah, Ga., before moving back to Birmingham to join his family’s company, Red Diamond. “The year I became a member, there were six ‘new boys,’ … [Read more...]
A Story of Love: Local Storyteller Hydock to Perform Valentine Story for Hoover Service Club
By Emily Williams Throughout her childhood and into her post-graduate life, Dolores Hydock didn’t realize that storytelling could be a career. Nonetheless, she began what would become an acclaimed storytelling career at 5 years old, when she entered a local storytelling contest in her hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania. Despite being the only contestant in her age group, she … [Read more...]
The Sweet Life: Birmingham Candy Co. is a Start-Up Aiming to Become an Institution
By Donna Cornelius The owners of The Birmingham Candy Co. have a sweet story to tell. Cassie and Wayne Bolden met at a Halloween party in Savannah, Ga. – an event Cassie almost passed up. “I don’t really like Halloween and wouldn’t have gone to the party if my next-door neighbor hadn’t been having it,” she said. Cassie, a Spain Park High School graduate, was living in the … [Read more...]
A Focus on Prevention: Mountain Brook Couple Promote Heart Health as 30th Anniversary Heart Ball Honorees
By Sarah Kuper When Dr. Derrill Crowe was approached to be the 2017 Heart Ball honoree, he said he would do it, but only if his wife was an honoree as well. For the 30th anniversary of the event, which benefits the American Heart Association, organizers thought it was fitting to have Derrill and his wife, Cameron, as hosts and honorees. “So many people have poured into this … [Read more...]