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1. FMH_0058 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of sculptor Kathleen Wheeler Crump (known professionally as Kathleen Wheeler) in 1918. Mrs. Crump produced this sculpture that year of lawyer Clarence Darrow which now is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C. Darrow, a member of the Chicago Single Tax Club, visited Fairhope several times, including a three-month stay in 1927. Kathleen Wheeler Crump visited Fairhope in 1927. But information which appears in t...

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. FMH_0262 - Photograph, Digital

   Flyer announcing a speech by Clarence Darrow at the Lyric Theatre in Mobile, Alabama in March 1927. Darrow's talk was "Crime: Its Cause and Treatment" and was also presented in Fairhope. All donations benefited the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FMH-A0007b - Audio, Digital

   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...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. FSTC-V0016 - Video, Digital

   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 wo...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
5. FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital

   Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
6. FSTC-V0042 - Video, Digital

   Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated February 3, 2015 with Maggie Mosteller-Timbes who portrays Marietta "Aunt Mettie" Johnson. The School of Organic Education at Fairhope, Alabama began in a little cottage in the fall of 1907. It grew to a campus of ten acres and was one of the country's first progressive schools. Marietta Johnson lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. She was a legend in her own time and far ahead in her ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
7. vi.9.31-32 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/11/1908 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer has recently returned from a visit to Fairhope and comments on various issues. He references Clarence Darrow, saying he is throwing out most of his too-long ingnored correspondence (like Darrow), but is writing Gaston. He says Louis Post, editor of The Public newspaper, has made up his mind not to print anything positive about Fairhope, and there is nothing...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos