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FMH-A0001 - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio only) titled "Native American Indians on the Eastern Shore" dated June 15, 2013. Fairhope Museum of History, Director Donnie Barrett is interviewed by Michael Titford. Barrett, a local historian with archaeological experience, discusses the Native American Indian presence on Mobile Bay's eastern shore from the Paleolithic era into the Creek era. Topics include archaeological findings (e.g. shell middens, pottery, tools, buri...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0002 - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio only) titled "Eastern Shore During the Colonial Period" dated June 29, 2013. Fairhope Museum of History, Director Donnie Barrett is interviewed by Michael Titford. In this wide-ranging interview, Barrett discusses the history of the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay through the transition to Colonial times from when the population was primarily Native American Indian. Topics include Native American pottery, various settlements,...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0004a - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio) dated January 16, 1979 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. A continuation of this interview with additional later content is cataloged under separate records in these Archives at FMH-A0004b, FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. The interview covers a wide range of topics about Mrs. Payne's life in Fairhope, her family, friends, experiences and observations. Included are topics about Mariet...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0004b - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio) dated February 20, 1980 and April 28, 1980 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. This is the second part of an interview with Hazele Williams Payne. The first part can be heard at FMH-A0004a in these Archives, followed by other interviews at FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. Mrs. Payne recounts a wide range of topics about life in Fairhope including people, parties, dances, entertainment, b...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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 ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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
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FMH-V1006 - Video, Digital
Video: "Journey Stories Volume 1, Fairhope, Alabama." Fairhope citizens tell how they came to live in Fairhope and about their lives here. Dated August 21, 2012. In Volume 1, six oral histories are presented in the following order: 1. Joyce Becker 2. Louie Blaze 3. Mary Ann Maradik 4. Robert McKee 5. Eloise Rogers 6. Elsie Arnold Butgereit From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection. Vide...
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FMH-V1007 - Video, Digital
Video: "Journey Stories Volume 2 Fairhope, Alabama." Fairhope citizens tell how they came to live in Fairhope and about their lives here. Dated August 21, 2012. In Volume 2, seven oral histories are presented in the following order: 1. Timothy P. Kant 2. Barry Gaston 3. Catherine King 4. Agnes Rezner Jones 5. Sherry Sullivan 6. Charles Torrey 7. Jewel Moody From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of Histor...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-V1008 - Video, Digital
Video: "Journey Stories Volume 3 Fairhope, Alabama." Fairhope citizens tell how they came to live in Fairhope and about their lives here. Dated August 21, 2012. In Volume 3, seven oral histories are presented in the following order: 1. Donnie Barrett 2. Henry Crawford III 3. Jennifer Fidler 4. Lucille Fracas 5. Claude "Rusty" Godard III 7. Carrie Powell From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History C...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-V1009 - Video, Digital
Video: "Journey Stories Volume 4 Fairhope, Alabama." Fairhope citizens tell how they came to live in Fairhope and about their lives here. Dated August 21, 2012. In Volume 4, Maj. Mordecai "Mawk" Arnold, USMC (retired), discusses his family, moving to Fairhope in 1931, his education at the School of Organic Education, and other life stories. Arnold's sister Elsie Arnold Butgureit is also interviewed in the Journey Stories series (see FMH-V10...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-V1010 - Video, Digital
Oral history, Part 1, by William Frank "Frank" Larway (1933-2019). The video continues in FMH-V1011. Run time is approximately 50 minutes. Laraway discusses his family, early life in Fairhope, Alabama, education at the Marietta Johnson of Organic School, and later career and travels. He describes his parents' move from the Northeast, their poultry and dairy farm operations in Fairhope, and childhood chores such as milking cows, raising chic...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0013 - Video, Digital
Video of Four interviews interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell 1st Video (Note: some of the beginning of this video is missing): Interview in 1995 with Anna Coleman Wood Myers who talked about attending public school in Fairhope and the Organic School. She spoke of childhood memories and how the children entertined themselves in Fairhope. She commented "Fairhope compares favorably with everywhere." Mrs. Wood and her sist...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0014 - Video, Digital
Video interview with Charles Ingersoll (Charles Bernard Ingersoll) dated 1992/01/04. Interviewed by Flo Simmons and Ruth Rockwell. NOTE: This video runs 1 hour and 17 minutes when a partial interview of Gale Rowe starts at that point in error. Mr. Rowe's entire interview is available at FSTC-V0015 or by searching his name.. Charles Ingersoll was born in Fairhope. His family came to Baldwin County as early as 1840. His parents were Fred ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0015 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated September 16, 1994 with Gale Rowe who came to Fairhope with his parents in the late 1930's. He graduated from Fairhope High School in 1943 (where he met Eloise Nichols whom he later married), served in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War, and in between service stints, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1948. Upon retirement, the family returned to Fairhope where he was active in the Fairhope Single Tax Corpor...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
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FSTC-V0017 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated August 15, 1994 with Sam Dyson who was born in Fairhope on February 16, 1908. His parents came to the United States on June 30, 1900 from Bolton, England, and settled in Philadelphia where they met Joseph Fels and read the Henry George book. Progress and Poverty. As a result, they moved to Fairhope in 1904, built a house on Fels Avenue, and his father, Marmaduke Dyson, started a construction company. Marmaduke Dyson serve...
Record Type: Archives and Videos