Archives and Videos Record
Metadata
Object ID |
FSTC-V0003 |
Object Name |
Video, Digital |
Description |
Video of play titled "A Fair Hope of Success" produced on December 15-18, 1994 by playwright Mark Gillespie for the Fairhope, Alabama Centennial. Thie play is set in Iowa and Fairhope where E. B. Gaston and a group of men ultimately mold Henry George's single tax theory to better reflect their own goals. Gaston came up with a plan called "true cooperative indvidualism" and that, in fact, made it not a socialist community, but one where individual rights were retained. As cities grew, problems sprang up including unemployment, economic depression, and poverty at a level and scope never before witnessed. Because of the division of wealth and labor a class system was born and the gap between rich and poor was at an all-time high. America in the late 1800's was being revolutionized from an agrarian, rural nation to an industrialized, urban county with rapid growth in machine inventions. factories, jobs, expendable income, leisure time and education. Groups of reformers sprang up across the country with a myriad of ideas and plans to secure a more cooperative environment. Nearly all plans failed. This is a play about the Fairhope Plan, which did not succumb to failure. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. |
Date |
1994/12/15-18 |
PDF link |
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People |
Gillespie, Mark Trigg, Buz Barrett, Donnie Green, Cindy Turner, Lee Savell, Blake Johnson, Leslie Timbes, Graham Jarrett, Earl Harrison, Kristin Gaston, Ernest B. (1861-1937) Bellangee, James (1844-1915) Howland, Marie (1836-1921) Johnson, Marietta Pierce (1864-1938) |
Search Terms |
Videos Words Out Production Fairhope Founders Fairhope History Single Tax Centennial |
Title |
A Fair Hope of Success |