Garden & Gun

Boathouse Ambitions

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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

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