Meet Me at The Butterfly Tree: A Fairhope Memoir
Mary Lois Timbes was born in Mobile, Alabama, grew up in Montrose, and graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education in Fairhope. Intending to be an actress, she went to Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) and appeared as the maid in Hedda Gabler in a production which featured Polly Holliday in the title role. She studied acting in New York with Peggy Feury and Lee Strasberg and has had a career as an actress, journalist and public relations executive. In Geneva, Switzerland, she founded an American “little theater.” Returning to Fairhope in 1988, she began the professional Jubilee Fish Theater, which lasted for seven years.