Cake vrs Pie Competition celebrates baked memories of the past. Dust off that old recipe and bake that cherished and memorable pie or cake! Bring it to the meeting at 4PM at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. We’d love to share it with you, along with the memories! And HERE’S how to join…
Here’s the entry form below. Be sure to include it with your entry!
Need a form to accompany your baked goods? Download one HERE
Need more information about the meeting? Read more about it HERE
LET US EAT CAKE..AND PIE TOO (if it’s your family fave, we’ll love it!)
We’ll do the rest–judge, slice, share after the speakers
Questions? Call Carolanne Roberts at 205-999-6582
Birmingham Historical Society’s ANNUAL MEETING
A Publication Celebration and Family Favorites Cake and Pie Contest
7:00 p.m. Strange Auditorium at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
SIGNING OF THE NEWLY RE-RELEASED
The Birmingham District-An Industrial History and Guide
The indispensable guide to the rise of area industry and communities
Annual Meeting – February 24th at 7PM
“[Birmingham District-An Industrial History and Guide] may be the most useful book ever written about the history of Birmingham and Jefferson County.”
Clarke Stallworth, Associate Editor, Birmingham News, 1982
The Birmingham Historical Society features speakers on Ross Bridge (from Old South to present) and a look at city father John Milner and the Making of Birmingham at its annual meeting February 24 at 7 p.m. in the Strange Auditorium at Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
”The annual meeting will also explore a strategy plan for ‘2020 and Beyond,'” says Marjorie White, the Society’s executive director. “It is also our tradition to release or re-release volumes published by the Birmingham Historical Society. Additionally, this year our annual Heritage Cake Contest expands to include pies–following the judging, all attending members are invited to sample the creations.”
The 2020 meeting presents a re-release of The Birmingham District-An Industrial History and Guide. “This 324-page volume with 377 illustrations is the indispensable guide to the rise of area industry and communities–in it you will find the cultures of iron ore mines, coal mines, and limestone quarries and of geological discoveries and enterprises that resulted.
”First published in 1981, the re-release of this carefully crafted history of Birmingham industry is yet compelling and important to the understanding of our community’s growth.”
Members of the Society receive this year’s book as part of their membership benefits; for all other, the cost is $24.95).
Membership also includes the opportunity to enter the Family Favorites Cake and Pie Contest (entrants may join the Society onsite to participate). “We invite submissions of both cakes and now pies for the first time this year, all a manner of celebrating recipes passed down through families,” says White. “We uncover fascinating stories which harken back to when our ancestors used ‘oleo,’ and tested doneness with broom bristles.”
She adds, “Anyone attending the meeting may join the Society for $40 a year, which includes invitations to events, newsletters and copies of all newly published books.”
The Birmingham District-An Industrial History and Guide] “invites the reader to join in the history of this place…the book gives precise locations of historical places and objects in the county.”
Clarke Stallworth, Associate Editor, Birmingham News, 1982
Searching for that perfect holiday gift? Many of our BHS titles are now available at the Shoppe in Forest Park. Enjoy browsing among the gorgeous flowers and gifts to find them.
Our newest publication, Pretty Posies, is surrounded by gardening tools, the best gift ever for the gardener on your list.
Need a stocking stuffer for a golfer? How about BHS publication, “Golf in Birmingham before 1925”, along with assorted pocket tools. And the popular Bob Moody’s Birmingham is stacked among what could be described as a watercolor still life display of history titles and orchids.
A big thank you to the owners for contributing to BHS as Heritage Society members in addition to showcasing their appreciation for the history of our community! Please drop by and support them!
FLASH SALE of Birmingham Historical Society titles; $10-$20 per book. Great gifts for holiday giving (or gifting to yourself). Titles range from Bob Moody’s Birmingham (watercolors) and Shades Creek-Flowing through Time; Tall Tales (of Birmingham) and Pretty Posies-Powerful Healing; Digging Out of the Great Depression, Art of the New South AND MANY MORE.
Details: Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Little Hardware, 2117 Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook. Payment by check, cash, or credit card
Pretty Posies publication principals: artists/illustrators, author and editor, left to right: Gardener, Editor, & BHS Director, Marjorie White; Illustrators, Ellen Erdreich, Sumter Coleman; Herbalist and author, Antonia Viteri; Illustrators, Gail Cosby, Louise McPhillips, and Jane Reed Ross….and Mary Virginia Rushing and her sister sampling the lavender.
Barbara Shores is presiding over the Lemon Balm and Lavender Punch that was a big hit….
Sunday, October 13, 3–5 p.m.—Garden Party, Publication Celebration, and Exhibit of watercolors from Pretty Posies, Healing Powers–An Herbal Primer by featured artists Sumter Coleman, Gail Cosby, Ellen Erdreich, Louise McPhillips, and Jane Reed Ross, all Birmingham residents. Grandmother’s Garden at Sloss Quarters, 10 North 32nd Street.
October 15–November 30—Watercolors from Pretty Posies, Healing Powers–An Herbal Primer. Birmingham Botanical Gardens Library Gallery. Here’s a preview!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maria Antonia Viteri, a native of Mobile, has studied Western and Southern Appalachian herbal traditions in Alabama and California. Viteri, a Master Gardener, is also licensed in Architecture and Landscape Design. She currently resides in Sterrett, Alabama.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATORS
Birmingham Historical Society “Artists in the Garden,” all avid gardeners themselves, have been painting en plein air in Grandmother’s Garden for many years. For this volume, they sketched our herbs from specimens and photographs, coordinating their work at lunchtime gatherings at Gail Cosby’s home.
Sumter Coleman is a psychiatrist now retired to her mountain top residence where she writes and paints.
Writer, editor, publicist Gail Cosby now employs her talent as a watercolorist.
Artist and art historian Ellen Erdreich first sketched herbs as a teenager.
Louise McPhillips, an architect by profession, currently specializes in making portraits of her family.
Landscape architect Jane Reed Ross has left her mark on many Birmingham area park and greenway projects.
FLASH SALE of Birmingham Historical Society titles; $10-$20 per book. Great gifts for holiday giving (or gifting to yourself). Titles range from Bob Moody’s Birmingham (watercolors) and Shades Creek-Flowing through Time; Tall Tales (of Birmingham) and Pretty Posies-Powerful Healing; Digging Out of the Great Depressions, Art of the New South AND MANY MORE. Details: Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Little Hardware, 2117 Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook. Payment by check or cash.
