Archives and Videos Record
Metadata
Object ID |
FSTC-V0016 |
Object Name |
Video, Digital |
Description |
Video interview dated January 7, 1992 with Arthur V. Keller, Sr. who was born in Fairhope in 1919. His great granfather Joseph Keller, grandfather Emmanuel Keller, father and six uncles moved to Fairhope from Kansas in 1900. Arthur describes the many houses built by the Keller family in and around Fairhope. Arthur was born in the family home located across the street from the Organic School Bell Building on Bancroft Street. Arthur's father worked at the Fairhope Cooperative Store at the northeast corner of Fairhope Avenue and Church Street where Mr. Reynolds was the manager and a barter system was used. Arthur attended public school. He recounts his childhood years, with lots of fun, pranks, mishaps and occasional tragedies. Comings Hall on the Organic School campus was the center of social life with basketball games and dances. Arthur built a scale model of the Organic School campus c. 1930; he also built scale models of sailing schooners. Arthur's father died when he was 17. Arthur drove the school bus for 4 years, then worked in the ship yards. He worked for 32 years at the Corps of Engineers in Mobile before retiring. Interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth Rockwell. Video is one hour, 17 minutes. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. |
Date |
1992/01/07 |
PDF link |
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People |
Keller, Arthur V., Sr. Keller, Joseph Keller, Emmanuel Keller, Louie Keller, Roscoe Swift, Old Man Titus, John Harold "Jack" Harper, Larry Stimpson, Jesse Jowers, Robert V. Edwards, Helen Edmunds, Lawrence Burmeister, Billy Stewart, Billy Stubblefield, Margaret Stubblefield, Mary Chappel, Isabel Nelson, Willie Darrow, Clarence S. (1857-1938) Darrow, Ethel O. (1879-1969) Johnson, Azel, Thomas, Arthur Alcorn, R. H. Lore, Grover Skinner, P. B. Dr. Stewart, Billy McKenzie, Larkin "Pickles" West, Forrest Bishop, H. G. Totten, Edward P., Judge |
Search Terms |
Videos Interviews Oral Histories Children Entertainment Fairhope History Big Head Gully Gullies Comings Hall Organic School |
Title |
Interview: Arthur Keller |