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1903_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1903. The paper was published on the 1st and 15th of each month. All editions are available. The December 15, 1903 paper has a four page supplement about "the Only Colony of Single-Taxers in the World" reprinted by permission from the Judge Publishing Company, October 8, 1903 edition of Leslie's Weekly. A new press was acquired for the Courier in 1903 resulting in more efficient and better quality printing. ...
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29.16.4-7 - Correspondence
Letters to E. B. Gaston in Fairhope, Alabama from H. W. Rucker in Albany, Georgia dated June 7, 1935 and June 8, 1935 about a poem titled "Fairhope Grows" Rucker has written. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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34_58_001 - Poem
Poem titled "Fairhope" by Norman A. Synard. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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34_59_001_015 - Poem
Small booklet of poems by Eleanor Risley, with forward by Fairhope Librarian Mary Heath Lee. Mrs. Risley's obituary (1945) is included. Mrs. Risley lived in Fairhope in the 1920s. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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37_1_015 - Poem
Poem dated August 1, 1930 and dedicated to H. J. S. (Henry Stuart, Henry James Stuart) titled "The Sage of Tolstoy Park. The author is the mysterious "Miss V. V." This cataloger believes her to be Vivian Howard (aka Lady Vivian), wife of Milford W. Howard. The Howards visited Fairhope in 1929 when Mr. Howard was writing travel articles for the Birmingham News-Age Herald paper, but cannot confirm this. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpora...
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37_1_015 - Poem
Poem dated August 1, 1930 and dedicated to H. J. S. (Henry Stuart, Henry James Stuart) titled "The Sage of Tolstoy Park. The author is the mysterious "Miss V. V." This cataloger believes her to be Vivian Howard (aka Lady Vivian), wife of Milford W. Howard. The Howards visited Fairhope in 1929 when Mr. Howard was writing travel articles for the Birmingham News-Age Herald paper, but cannot confirm this. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpora...
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39_1_001 - Poster
Architectural drawing by C. A. Wolcott, dated 2005, of the Henry Stuart Cottage, Tolstoy Park, Montrose, Alabama. Mr. Wolcott dedicated this to Sonny Brewer, author of the Stuart-inspired novel "The Poet of Tolstoy Park," and Kenneth E. Niemeyer, who has preserved the house. The drawing shows details about Stuart's Round House (Hermit House) and information about how it was constructed. An excerpt from the 1930 poem "The Sage of Tolstoy Park"...
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4.10.1-115 - Correspondence
Correspondence (Da-Di) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1936-1953 and C. A. Gaston. Included are several letters to C. A. Gaston from Bill Dealy (William Austin Dealy, W. A. Dealy) who was writing from Nashville, TN where he was an engineer with the War Department. Includes some of Dealy's cartoons, drawings and poetry. 4.10.64 is a response to a letter of condolence written to C. A. Gaston on the death of his father, E. B. Ga...
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FMH_2278 - Poem
Poem dated August 1, 1930 and dedicated to H. J. S. (Henry Stuart, Henry James Stuart) titled "The Sage of Tolstoy Park. The author is the mysterious "Miss V. V." This cataloger believes her to be Vivian Howard (aka Lady Vivian), wife of Milford W. Howard. The Howards visited Fairhope in 1929 when Mr. Howard was writing travel articles for the Birmingham News-Age Herald paper, but cannot confirm this. The poem is included in a scrapbook ...
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FMH_2279 - Poem
Poem, very poor quality, about Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946), the "Hermit' of Montrose (also known as "Ye Olde Weaver"). The poem was included in a scrapbook donated to the Fairhope Museum of History by Stuart's family. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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PMG_14269 - Poem
Poem written by Mary Ida Braune and Anna Braune (mother and daughter) to Paul Nichols (aka Pop Nichols) titled "For Pop NIchols From Two Admirers." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.
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PMG_14301-14306 - Letter
Letter, poem and clipping dated May 7, 1934 by Eleanor Risley in Mena, Arkansas, writing to Paul NIchols and Louella Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama. Eleanor Risley and her husband Pierre (aka Peter) lived in Fairhope for a few years in the 1920s. Risley, a poet and author, included a newspaper clipping about her book "The Road to Wildcat" in this letter to the Nichols. Risley refers to "John" in the letter, who was the couple's old dog. F...
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