The Dance Foundation will host 50 YEARS GOLD, a community dance party for all ages on Aug. 16, 2025, from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Edge in Homewood on Greensprings Highway. Event sponsors include the Homewood Arts Council, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Buffalo Rock, and Thomas Waters State Farm. Admission to the community party is free and features dances like The … [Read more...]
About Town
Thurs., July 10 WINE TASTING FUNDRAISER Taste a variety of wines and benefit the students, educators and staff of Jefferson County Schools. Enjoy your sips with free food and music. WHEN: 5:30-8:30 p.m. WHERE: The Wine Loft Tues., July 15 BUILDING A BEE HOTEL Bee boxes, or bee hotels, can attract pollinators to your garden and promote biodiversity. In this … [Read more...]
Remembering Rubin
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16Rubin Earl Grant was the very embodiment of letting his light shine.Rubin’s stories about high school sports graced this space in Over The Mountain Journal—first as a freelancer and for the past eight years as sports … [Read more...]
Father Goose and the Treehouse: Children’s author Charles Ghigna—Father Goose—lives and works happily at home in Homewood.
By Barry Wise SmithWhen Charles Ghigna and his wife Debra moved into their 100-year-old English Tudor cottage in Homewood in 1976, Charles, affectionately known as Father Goose for his prolific children’s literature career, gravitated to a cozy attic space that he turned into his writing room. “The house became our forever storybook home, and the attic quickly became my … [Read more...]
Punching Back: Martin Juarez and his PD Fight Club are waging war against Parkinson’s Disease.
By Cathy DeLozier Photos by Jordan WaldUnlike the famous quote from the 1999 movie Fight Club, “The first rule of fight club is: you don’t talk about fight club,” the PD Fight Club’s rule is: “HAVE FUN!” says Martin Juarez, owner and coach at Juarez Boxing in Irondale. During six weekly classes, more than 100 Parkinson’s boxers—deliberately not called … [Read more...]