The Boom Castle Shire
Boom Castle
Native Californians, Glenn and Sally Boom, settled in Montrose after many years of living across the country while working for Shell Oil Company. They fell in love with the Eastern Shore area in 1978 and decided to stay, becoming very active in church and community.
Retired Navy Captain Glenn worked in the oil industry and developed numerous service stations/convenience stores in this area and Pensacola.
Queen Sally, as we like to call her, traveled the country as an artist, designer, consultant, and teacher specializing in all types of needlework while raising 4 children. She is very active in Shire daily life and the weekly Castle Walks.
The Gate House
(The A-Frame section of Boom Castle)
Our Lady Paris (Ladner) grew up in Biloxi, Miss., where her family owned the Fisherman’s Wharf, a popular restaurant for 13 years. When Hurricane Camille destroyed it and her family home, she and her mother moved to New York and lived for two years with friends who were show business people and artists. Paris studied piano with a Juilliard instructor and absorbed the culture of Manhattan, the Broadway plays, the museums, the ethnic restaurants, and concerts. Her mother worked as a talent scout, so Paris was exposed to a wide variety of entertainers who would often spend the weekends with them.
Paris and her mother rebuilt the restaurant in Biloxi and Paris attended high school while she pursued riding and jumping horses, accompanying the concert choir on piano, and playing concertos with the orchestra. After high school, Paris studied music at Ole Miss and the University of Southern Mississippi until moving to Southern California where she got her B.A. Degree and started working at Warner Brothers Studios and later at Twentieth Century Fox as a set assistant. She married, and she and her husband started a successful company which they owned for over 30 years. They have 3 sons. In 2015, Paris got a divorce and moved to Ocean Springs, Miss and bought a home there. She discovered beautiful Fairhope in 2020, sold her home and moved to Oak Avenue, where she loves the Shire village, which she is proud to be a part of. Paris has enjoyed sharing her various fairy scenes with the Walking School Bus and has a long list of other art projects she plans to start now that she is retired.
