Boathouse Ambitions

AN ALABAMA LAKE GETAWAY TELLS A MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY STORY

By Jennifer Kornegay

THE BEST OF SOUTHERN HOMES, GARDENS, STYLE, AND MORE HOMEPLACE In the 1950s, at her grandparents’ cabin tucked along the shore of Alabama’s Lake Martin, Hillery Head’s grandfather baked biscuits each morning while her father boated and water-skied. As a child, Head splashed in the same coves and lazed on the same dock, and later relished the same family tradition of a day’s-end cocktail cruise. In 1995, her parents built a house next door, where her three children learned to swim and tube, and gobbled up the golden biscuits still made from her grandfather’s recipe. After her husband’s death in 2018, Head decided it was her turn to build on a pine-punctuated piece of her family’s lakeside land, prompted by a long-held desire for a retreat of her own on…

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