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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FSTC-V0018 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated September 20, 1994 with Clay Havard (Henry Clay Havard, Jr.). Clay grew up in Mobile, Alabama where his family lineage goes back to the mid-1700's. His family was in the grocery business and Clay spent summers in Fairhope. Clay married Patricia Reynolds in 1962 at St. James Episcopal Church and they have two sons: Byron Clay Havard and Matthew Monroe Havard. Patty's parents were Isadore and Ellie Coleman Reynolds. Is...
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 ...
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FSTC-V0021 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated February 2, 1995 with H. Reed Myers and Pierce E. "Bud" Frederick (1923-2000); interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Pierce "Bud" Frederick appears on the right in the interview. He speaks first. Dr. Frederick was born in Fairhope in 1923. His parents were Paul A. Frederick (1894-1972) and Esther Pierce Frederick (1897-1997). His mother was the niece of Marietta Johnson; Pierce and his brother Pa...
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FSTC-V0022 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Curtis Bird Willard on February 2, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Curtis Willard moverd to Fairhope as a boy in 1936 with his family. He started operating the projector at the Fairhope Movie Theater in 1938 when he was 12 years old. He talked about growing up in Fairhope, the "4 toots," going to the Organic School, Marietta Johnson, Gretchen Riggs and other teachers at the school. He mentioned Je...
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FSTC-V0023 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 11, 1996 with Rae Bernhardt Jackson, a Fairhope native and resident who owned The Picture Show, a gift shop in downtown Fairhope near the movie theater on Fairhope Avenue. Mrs. Jackson is the person who suggested the idea of making video interviews of Fairhopers for the centennial celebration. She was interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Jackson tells about the life of her grandparents, Lawrence and Victoria B...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0024 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 12, 1996 with Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Schneider is the granddaughter of Clement L. Coleman, one of Fairhope's town founders. She is the daughter-in-law of Fairhope Mayor Joe Schneider. Her grandparents Clement "Clem" Lefevre Coleman and Sarah Louise Wood Coleman and her great grandfather George Warren Wood were charter members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Clement Coleman also served as President of ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0025 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 9, 1995 with Timothy P. Kant; interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mr. Kant was born in Newark, New Jersey and moved with his parents to Spanish Fort, Alabama in 1967. He graduated from Fairhope High School and Auburn University with a B.S. in ornamental horticulture. He worked at Holmberg Nursery in Fairhope, Gulf Farms in Foley, and then, in 1983, was hired by Mayor James P. Nix to start a ...
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FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...
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FSTC-V0028 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 15, 1995 of Kenneth E. "Ken" Wallace. His wife Phyllis was in attendance. Interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Bob Schneider. Ken Wallace talks about his maternal grandfather, Ozzie Freeman. Ken's parents were Walker Wallace, a WWII veteran and Elsie Freeman Wallace. Walker was in the fishing business in Fairhope, and Ken talked about his father's snag lines, making roe, designing the first crabtaps in Ba...
Record Type: Archives and Videos