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1. 11.31.1-105 - Annual Report

   Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Annual Reports, 1944-1955. Some duplicates are included.

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2. 1.19.4 - Letter

   Undated letter (probably 1932-33) to members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation urging support of a constitutional amendment to change how taxes are paid in relation to rent. The FSTC financial safety is under threat due to the depression, the "vicious land system," the decrease in wharfage fees due to the opening of the Cochrane Bridge and the lack of a "modern, hard-surfaced through highway." Signed by all officers of the Fairhope Singl...

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3. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

   Fairhope Single Tax Corporation list of members and addresses dated May 13, 1932.

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4. 1.2.3-11 - Membership List

   List of Fairhope Single Tax Corportation members and addresses dated 2/7/1935. (several copies)

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5. 33_2_067 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 171. Information about burials occuring after this Record Book was in use is included from other official sources. Grave 1: Linda K. Kasuba, died 1978 and Stanley J. Kasuba, firf 2008 Grave 2: Louella Morton Nichols, died 1939 Grave 3: Paul Nichols, Sr., died 1948 Grave 4: Clara P. Chamberlain, died 1945 and Frederick H. Houtkamp, died 19080 Grave 5: vacant Grave 6: Lester Irv...

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6. 5.9.1-215 - Letter

   Correspondence of E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston, secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1934-1952. Includes general FSTC correspondence including inquiries about Fairhope as a single tax colony, inquiries about land for lease, rent bills, and other corporation busienss. 5.9.13-89 is the 1937 Nebraska Tax Commission Report. 5.9.116 is the 1939 FSTC annual election ballot. 5.9.137-138 is correspondence in 1934 about ...

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7. FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital

   Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...

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8. FMH-A0005c - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews Helene Beiser Hunter, Evalyn Berglin Porter and Eloise Nichols Rowe for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation briefly at the beginning. Approximately 33 minutes, 20 seconds. Note that Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews some of these participants in FMH-A0005a and FMH-A0005b. Topics...

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9. FMH-V1011 - Video, Digital

   Oral history video, Part 2, by William Frank "Frank" Laraway (1933-2019). Part 1 is available at FMH-V1010. Laraway's story starts with his marriage in 1963, return to Fairhope from Michigan in 1965, and the establishment of his career as an architect.. For the rest of this detailed interview, Laraway talks about his early life in Fairhope in the 1940s and 1950s: farming and raising chickens (commercially), Organic School, friends, outi...

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10. FSTC-1359-1360 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of actors the April, 1927 Fairhope Shakespeare Festival production of "The Merchant of Venice." The play was held in the Bayou Vert gully on the bayfront. Some of the players are named on the reverse side of the photo. Judge Edward Totten (second from left), Rose Kamper, Mrs. McFarlane, Merton Armagast, and Paul Nichols (aka "Pop" Nichols). The lady on the ground is not identified. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archi...

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11. PMG_13968-14016 - Student Paper

    Student paper dated April 24, 1984 titled "The Will to Survive: The Paradox of the Organic School from 1935 to 1945" by J. Richard Carlson. The paper was submitted as a requirement for a history course on Fairhope, Alabama at the Univeristy of Virginia. The course was taught by Dr. Paul M. Gaston, Professor of History. The paper studies the history of the School of Organic Education (Orangic School) in Fairhope, Alabama during the decade en...

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12. PMG_14269 - Poem

    Poem written by Mary Ida Braune and Anna Braune (mother and daughter) to Paul Nichols (aka Pop Nichols) titled "For Pop NIchols From Two Admirers." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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13. PMG_14270-14273 - Speech

    Speech, hand printed, with no date, titled "Vision." The author is likely Paul Nichols (aka Pop Nichols), who was assistant director at the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama. The speech is about Marietta Johnson and her vision of education. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection

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14. PMG_14281 - Documents

    Document dated June 21, 1901 from the faculty of the Law Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesse which grants Paul Nichols a license to practice law in the State of Tennessee. The document states Nichols completed the course of the study of law, and was awarded a diploma. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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15. PMG_14282-14285 - Letter

    Letter dated March 19, 1927 from Paul Nichols, writing from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Miss Grace Rotzel in Fairhope, Alabama. (Miss Rotzel, a teacher at the Organic School) was a friend and former colleague of Nichols. Beginning in 1919, Paul NIchols (aka Pop Nichols, Professor Nichols) and family lived in Fairhope where he was assistant director at the School of Organic Education (Organic School). Nichols left teaching to move with the fam...

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16. PMG_14301-14306 - Letter

    Letter, poem and clipping dated May 7, 1934 by Eleanor Risley in Mena, Arkansas, writing to Paul NIchols and Louella Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama. Eleanor Risley and her husband Pierre (aka Peter) lived in Fairhope for a few years in the 1920s. Risley, a poet and author, included a newspaper clipping about her book "The Road to Wildcat" in this letter to the Nichols. Risley refers to "John" in the letter, who was the couple's old dog. F...

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17. PMG_14307-14313 - Letter

    Letter dated March 20, 1937, written by writer and poet Eleanor Risley in Mena, Arkansas to Paul Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama. Risley discusses a range of topics in this chatty letter: her diabetes, books, Communism, radical religion, etc. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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18. PMG_14316-14319 - Letter

    Letter dated March 6, 1938 from Paul Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama to his wife Louella Nichols in Arkansas. Nichols is assistant director at the School of Organic Education (aka Organic School), and writes of financial problems at the school, as well as Mrs. Marietta Johnson's fragile health and other matters of controversy (about Charles Kinney) at the School. (Mrs. Johnson would die later in 1938.) Nichols includes newsy information about the...

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19. PMG_9000-9002 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c.1940 of Paul Nichols (aka Rev. Paul Nichols, Sr.) and Louella Morton Nichols. Mr. Nichols was a teacher, and served as assistant director of the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama for approximately fifteen years. \From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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20. PMG_9003 - Photograph, Digital

    Portrait photograph of Paul Nichols, a teacher and Assistant Director of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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