Mary Lois Timbes
Mary Lois Timbes Adshead has lived in New York City and Geneva, Switzerland, Fairhope, Alabama,Hoboken, New Jersey and now resides in Kingston, New York.
Born in Mobile, she was raised in nearby Fairhope, a unique community founded in 1894 as a utopian colony to demonstrate the efficacy of Henry George's economic theory of the single tax. She graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education and went to college with the dream of becoming an actress. She studied acting in New York with Peggy Feury and Lee Strasberg and worked as a journalist and in public relations before marrying Jim Adshead and moving to Geneva where she founded an American community theater.
Returning to Fairhope, she worked at the Marietta Johnson Museum and did research on local history.
She is the author of the nonfiction books THE FAIR HOPE OF HEAVEN, MEET ME AT THE BUTTERFLY TREE, and the eBook THAT WAS TOMORROW, a historical novel. Her books are based on the rich lore of Fairhope and the characters she learned of and remembers from her life there.
“It should not be a surprise, even if it is not expected, if a shadow dances among the leaves, a face appears (or seems to), even a community of phantoms from the past. Here you will find answers, questions, and a host of stories.”
“I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.”