By Rubin E. GrantElijah Garrison wasn’t uneasy as he embarked on his first season as Homewood’s boys basketball coach, succeeding Tim Shepler.No one could have blamed him if there had been a tinge of anxiety. Shepler stepped down last spring after 29 years at the helm, leaving Garrison a tough act to follow.Shepler posted 662 career wins and led the Patriots to the … [Read more...]
Katherine McRee: Leading Cahaba Heights To New… Heights
By Loyd McIntoshKatherine McRee is a leader who doesn’t think of herself as one. At least that wasn’t on her radar screen when she and her sister, Susan Day, opened the Lili Pad, a popular children’s boutique in Cahaba Heights two decades ago. However, in recent years, McRee has emerged as one of the most significant and highly respected civic leaders in … [Read more...]
A Comfortable Oasis: Liz and Curt Rozzelle’s modern Tudor home in Hollywood is ever-evolving in design.
By Madoline Markham KoonceConstruction on Liz and Curt Rozzelle’s new modern Tudor home in Hollywood was completed in 2018, but in some ways that’s just when its story began. “You have to let the house and the yard and the garden tell you what it wants,” Liz says. “Is it in the right place? Where does the sun come in? What is the soil like? What does this room sound … [Read more...]
A Colorful Collaboration: Grisham Tolbert Interiors
By Tally Reynolds DettlingGet to know the creative minds of Grisham Tolbert Interiors—Virginia Grisham and Eleanor Tolbert. This duo met and created their firm in a uniquely organic way, starting as work colleagues at Cantley & Company in 2016. Over the next six years, they formed a sister-like bond that has helped them become a powerhouse in the design … [Read more...]
Build it and they will come: The Heart Ball is back and bigger than ever.
By Lee HurleyBirmingham, Alabama, surprises many visitors. It’s our hills that catch them off guard first, people tend to think of us as Kansas down south. The fact that we sit at the beginning of the Appalachian Mountains is unique and interesting and throws carpetbaggers off guard. Perhaps a lesser surprise is our national prominence in Orthopedics and Cardiovascular … [Read more...]