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1. FMH-A0003 - Audio, Digital

   Audio narration of "Diary of the Storm of September 26-27, 1906" by Maude M. Midgette (Maude M. Midgette Helton). Narrated by Norma Brandenburg Haas. Maude M. Midgette (1886-1930) was a twenty-year old young woman, who with her family, survived the hurricane of September 1906 at Pilot Town. The community, located at Navy Cove on the Fort Morgan peninsula in Baldwin County, Alabama, was destroyed in the storm. Miss Midgette wrote her account o...

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2. FMH-A0005a - Audio, Digital

   First 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." Approximately 48 minutes. Part 2 is FMH-A0005b. Helene Hunter and Evalyn Porter describe in detail their experiences in early to mid-twentieth century Fairhope. Included are memories of playing in the g...

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3. 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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4. 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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5. FMH-A0007a - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) Part 1 dated April 28, 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. Others interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007b. In this interview, three of W. A. Dealy's comic poems are read by the interviewer and Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. The first poem ...

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6. 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...

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