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  1. FSTC-0845-0849 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs of Fairhopers attending the Centennial Celebration in November, 1984 on the grounds of the former Organic School campus (at the time the campus of Faulkner State Community College, now renamed Coastal Alabama Community College) in front of Centennial Hall in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. Picture 1: Dorothy Beiser Cain, Picture 2: Graham Timbes, emcee/narrator, Picture 3: Layton Overstreet (on right with cup), Picture 4: Paul A...

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    Photograph, Digital
  2. 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

  3. FSTC-V0002 - Video, Digital

    Video titled "Characters: A Search for the Essence of Fairhope." The was performed in 1994 in honor of the dedication of Centennial Hall on the campus of Faulkner State Community College (now Coastal Alabama Community College). This site was the original campus of the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education. Play produced by the Joy in Acting Workshop with Graham Timbes, Director. Performances: April 30, and May 4-8, 1994. 1 hour 38 min...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

  4. FSTC-V0003 - Video, Digital

    Video of play titled "A Fair Hope of Success" produced on December 15-18, 1994 by playwright Mark Gillespie for the Fairhope, Alabama Centennial. Thie play is set in Iowa and Fairhope where E. B. Gaston and a group of men ultimately mold Henry George's single tax theory to better reflect their own goals. Gaston came up with a plan called "true cooperative indvidualism" and that, in fact, made it not a socialist community, but one where indivi...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

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