Archives and Videos Record
Metadata
Object ID |
FSTC-V0030 |
Object Name |
Video, Digital |
Description |
Video interview dated March 8, 1995 with Dorothy Beiser Cain. Mrs. Cain is also know as Dot Cain and Mama Dot Cain. Interviewers are Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Dot Cain came to Fairhope in the late 19teens with her parents Felix Beiser and Rosamond Beiser, from Loxley, Alabama where her father owned a general store. Dot was the third of six children. Her parents had heard a lecture given by Marietta Johnson and decided to move to Fairhope so their children could attend the Organic School. Mr. Beiser and Ralph Young purchased Wheeler Mercantile store and the southeast corner of Fairhope Avenue and Section Street. Felix Beiser also bought an entire block in Fairhope bordered by Nichols Avenue, Church Street, White Avenue and Section Street to build home for his family (the First Baptist Church is now on this location). Dot attended Organic School, then worked there, and met her future husband Kenneth Cain, who was the adopted son of Marietta Johnson Dot and Kenneth owned the Soda Garden restaurant next to Fairhope Pharmacy for about 9 years and later started SeeCoast Manufacturing which manufactures coin operated telescopes. Video runs 1 hour and 7 minutes, with the interviewer saying the video will resume later, but it does not. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.. |
Date |
1995/03/08 |
PDF link |
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People |
Cain, Dorothy Beiser (1913-2002) Cain, Kenneth Cain, Kenneth Cain, Geoffrey Beiser, Felix W. Beiser, Rosamond Jung Young, Ralph Johnson, Marietta Pierce (1864-1938) Mershon, C. L., M.D. Teamer, Richard "Dick" |
Search Terms |
Videos Oral Histories Interviews Fairhope Pharmacy Soda Garden Organic School Wheeler Mercantile See Coast Manufacturing |
Title |
Interview: Dorothy 'Dot' Beiser Cain |