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Object ID |
FMH-A0007b |
Object Name |
Audio, Digital |
Description |
Interview (audio) dated 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). Part 2. The interviewer is not identified. Other interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007a. In this interview, the rest of the 1935 "Merry Christmas Folks" poem (started in FMH-A0007a) written by W. A. Dealy is read by the interviewer. Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. Upon completion of the poem, a third unknown person joins the interview as Hazele Payne discusses life in early Fairhope: social gatherings, weddings, divorces, dances, unusual Fairhope characters, and other local information. (Note by cataloger: Reference is made of famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow's sister as living in Fairhope. Miss Ethel O. Darrow (1879-1969) lived in Fairhope, but was not related to Darrow. Miss Darrow was the daughter of Charles A. Darrow, a Fairhope businessman. There is no evidence that Darrow's sister lived in Fairhope.) The interview runs approximately 32 minutes. A transcription of the narration is available through the link below. The transcription was made electronically through Whisper software, and there may be minor errors. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection. |
Date |
1982 |
PDF link |
Click here to view the transcript. Click here to view the rhymes by Dealy. |
Video link |
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People |
Payne, Hazele Williams Overton, Walter Johnson, Axil Johnson, Nettie Getty, Edith Gaston, James E., Sr. (1890-1966) Gaston, Olive Wood "Piney" McGill, Max Pittenger (1892-1956) McGill, Leah Catherine Gaston (1893-1954) Comings, Samuel Huntington (1839-1907) Cummings, O. K. (1876-1946) Mershon, Nathaniel L. (1849-1931) Mershon, Ralph Gaston, Arthur Fairhope "Spider" (1896-1997) Gaston, Cornelius A., Dr. (1891-1981) Lowell, Gladys Anderson, Daphne Brown Stone, Frank S. Darrow, Clarence S. (1857-1938) Darrow, Ethel O. (1879-1969) Schramm, Emma Ida Hill, Ellen Dealy, William Austin (1888-1958) |
Search Terms |
Interviews Dance Entertainment Party Businesses Mobile Bay PPK Club MInstrel Shows Cartoons Poem Audio Hotels Fairhope Museum of History Collection Entertainment Organic School Wedding Trycadia Lodge Spiders Organic School Social Gatherings |
Title |
Hazele Williams Payne interview about early Fairhope history including W. A. Dealy's rhymes. April 26, 1982, Part 2. |