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Volume 2 | Issue 11 | February 2012
Park planned on Cahaba River By MADOLINE MARKHAM The City of Mountain Brook is planning a Cahaba River Park on Overton Road at Oakdale Drive near I-459. The 4.7acre park will back up to the Cahaba River. The city acquired the land for the park last fall from Brookwood Baptist Church and reviewed plans for development by Nimrod Long and Associates in January. “The park will serve as a gateway coming into our city from the southeast,” City Council President Virginia Smith said. “I feel like it’s going to add something to the southern part of Mountain Brook. Most of the current parks are closer to the Villages.” Nimrod Long’s rendering includes walking trails, a fishing ledge, a gazebo, picnic tables and benches. There would also be a parking area. “When you get down into the park land, it’s really quite private and remote,” firm President Nimrod Long said. “It’s a very beautiful piece of property with large hardwoods, 75 to 100 years old. The views onto the river feel like you are in the middle of nowhere.”
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February Features Editor’s Note City Council Stop Hunger Now Krewe Ball Kari Kampakis T-Lish Dressing Village Sports MBHS Theatre School House Restaurant Showcase Around the Villages Calendar of Events
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Nimrod Long presented this draft of a rendering of the Cahaba River Park to the Mountain Brook City Council in January. The city is asking for input on the plan before it is finalized. Image courtesy of Nimrod Long and Associates.
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Crestline resident Nathan Glick was an artist during World War II. Photo by Christiana Roussel.
By CHRISTIANA ROUSSEL The walls of the Glick home are like a fine art gallery. One wall contains watercolors of places Nathan Glick was stationed: England, Egypt, North Africa,
Romania, India and Italy. Another wall contains vivid paintings he completed after each family vacation with his wife, Esther, and their two daughters, Stephanie and
Roseanne. His style is evident in each; one has to look at the dates to know they vary in age by decades. Only a few months shy of turning 100 years old, Glick still paints. Born in Leeds, Ala. in 1912, Glick had a natural affinity for art and illustration that he developed and refined through traditional schooling and real life experiences. As a boy, he used these gifts to create drawings from the stories his mother read to him, illustrations that would find their way to the Children’s Page of The Birmingham News when he was only six years old. After completing high school in Montgomery at age 16, Glick traveled to New York and studied art for four years. Occasionally he would accompany his instructor, Eric Pape, to the Players Club where he met such performers as Charlie Chaplin and Basil Rathbone. His imagination let loose as he began to design costumes and stage sets. He spent an entire summer learning animal anatomy while working at the Museum of Natural History. His appetite for real-life learning has always been voracious, and he never turned down any opportunity to add skills to his repertoire.
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