Birmingham Botanical Gardens To Host Ninth Annual Southern Tales

MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — The Birmingham Botanical Gardens' Southern Tales will return for its ninth year on Nov. 5. This year's iteration of the event will feature a storytelling by Birmingham resident Dolores Hydock.

Hydock is a performer from Reading, Pennsylvania who has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, and first appeared in the Gardens' event in 2009 alongside author Kathryn Tucker Windham.

Hydock will begin at 2 p.m. with a piece that focuses on time change, an appropriate topic given that Sunday, Nov. 5 is Daylight Savings.

The event will take place at the Linn Henley Lecture Hall and will last about two hours. Tickets are $20 each. Proceeds benefit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens library. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Birmingham Patch morning newsletter.)