Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Sheldon, Craig Turner |
Born |
1917 |
Related Records
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7.1.105-112 - Letter
Correspondence between Craig T. Sheldon and C. A. Gaston, 1944-1946. Sheldon is in the United States Marine Corps in WWII and is writing Gaston about returning to Fairhope to lease land and live there after the war. There are letters in Box 7 from others with the "Sheldon" surname who could be related to Craig T. Sheldon.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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7.1.1-167 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1921-1955, (Sa-Si).
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH_0586-0605 - Photograph, Digital
Assorted photographs of Fairhope Single Tax Meetings and events. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-0048 - Photograph, Digital
Undated photograph of Fairhope, Alabama woodworker, writer, artist and sculptor Craig Turner Sheldon (1917-1997). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-V0001 - Video, Digital
Video titled "Fairhope: The First Century 1894-1994." This film was produced by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in 1995, during the Centennial year of it's founding. Written, directed, and produced by Dean Mosher and narrated by Graham Timbes. 31 min. Story of a century where an idea became a colony and a colony became a city: Fairhope. Begun in Des Moine, Iowa and moved to Alabama, our founders believed their idea had "a fairhope of...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0004 - Video, Digital
Video titled "First Thursday in Fairhope" dated September 6, 1984, hosted by Judy Stone. The video is part of the "First Thursday" series produced by Alabama Public Television (APT, University of Alabama Television Services). Run time is 30 minutes. Filmed in 1984 during Fairhope's Centennial, the video includes information on Fairhope's founding as a single tax colony, the Organic School of Education, the Jubilee phenomenon, businesses, organ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0012 - Video, Digital
Documentary video dated 2002 titled "A Fair Hope" written and directed by Michael Letcher for The University of Alabama Center of Public Television (APT). Reformers (members of the Fairhope Industrial Association, later renamed the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation) founded Fairhope in 1894 to address the economic and social problems of late 19th century America by demonstrating the practical application of the single tax economic theory. ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0020 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated October 3, 1994 of Roberta Billie and Mildred Berglin. Mildred Berglin moved from Colorado to Fairhope in 1928. She was one of twelve students who graduated from Fairhope High School in 1934. Roberta Billie came to Fairhope in June of 1934 from Texas. Her family spent that summer in Fairhope and decided to stay. Mrs. Billie was Frank Stewart, The Picture Man's grandniece. Mrs. Billie and Mrs. Berglin talk about ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0056 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated March 3, 2017 with John Nelson. History of Fairhope's love of the arts - the Arts and Crafts Festival, then and now. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.1.56-57 - Annual Report
1971 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corportation. This was the last Annual Report written by Cornelius Gaston. New Members-Dorothy Y. Yeager, Annie L. Sheldon, Milton V. Harris, Craig T. Sheldon, Maice Dillabough, Robert H. King, Deaths-Lucien T. Wilcox, Rudolph E. Tuveson, Alexis C. Ferm, Wayland Zwayer
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.4.14-16 - Membership List
List of Resident Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1975
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x.5.160-162 - Letter
Letter dated 8/16/1979 written to "Fellow Members" from Gale W. Rowe and Craig T. Sheldon enclosing a "Letter of Censure" for their information, contemplation and/or action. The "Letter of Censure" dated 8/14/1979 is written to the Executive Council of thFairhope Single Tax Corporation from the undersigned members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation saying that the council had exceeded its authority by passing and immediately implementing ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.5.165 - Letter
Letter dated 8/24/1979 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Craig T. Sheldon expressing his concern over the inability of Sam Dyson, president of the corporation, to come to grips with Article VI of the corporation's constitution, Initiative and Referendum. Sheldon is concerned about the Executive Council's blanket refusal to accept new members. "The desperate efforts to halt membership expanison to the point of committing u...
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x.5.86 - Letter
Letter dated 5/9/1979 to Senator Robert I. Gulledge from Craig T. Sheldon expressing his disappointment with his position on the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and saying that the claims of Rezner, Hoffren and Potter are false. Sheldon says that if Gulledge gets the legislation they seek, Fairhope will very well become a disaster area.
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x.5.87 - Letter
Letter dated 5/18/1979 to Craig T. Sheldon from Senator Robert I. Gulledge acknowledging receipt of his letter. He says that the (Fairhope Single Tax) Colony membership has voted to dissolve the charter of the present non-profit corporation, transferring its assets into the newly chartered profit corporation. He says that any action he would sponsor through the Alabama Legislature would be no different except that present lessees would also beco...
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x.5.88-89 - Letter
Letter dated 5/18/1979 to Senator Robert Gulledge from Craig T. Sheldon disputing some of the statements made by Gulledge in his 5/14/1979 letter. He says "the purpose of the (Fairhope Single Tax) Colony's vote to dissolve its present corporate statute, and to, reincorporate under the general incorporation laws of Alabama was born of desperation following seven years or more of harassment." . . . "The land thieves you have embraced have proved t...
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x.7.10 - Letter
Letter dated 9/10/1979 to "Fellow Members and Petitioners" from Craig T. Sheldon and Gale Rowe telling them that at a meeting of the Executive Council on 9/6/1979 they voted to cease the ban on membership application processing, to establish a committee to propose a time and place for a combined member/lessee meeting, to publish an audited report of the corporation's financial status annually. They also discussed the renovation of the office spac...
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