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29.7.4 - Correspondence
Letter dated December 2, 1935 from E. B. Gaston to W. P. Hoopes in Forest Hill, Maryland addressing Hoopes' query about a single tax candidated for governor of Mississippi. Of particular interest are Gaston's comments, again in response to Hoopes, about A.M. Troyer, the Fairhope satsuma grower who left in the early 1930s to go to Soviet Russia to aid the government in starting orchards on the Black Sea. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpora...
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PMG-4646-4683 - Documents
Memoir of Marjorie Edwards Ewing. Mrs. Ewing was the daughter of Willard Edwards, Edwards and family came to Fairhope in 1924 where he taught at the School of Organic Education. In 1933, Edwards moved to the Soviet Union, with the family following a year later. This information includes newspaper clippings and Marjorie Edwards Ewing's recollection about the family's experiences in which some members returned to the U.S. and some stayed in the...
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PMG-5897-5924 - Student Paper
Student paper by Shae Sherertz written in April 1984 to fulfill requirments for History 488, a senior level undergraduate course taught by Univeristy of Virginia Corcoran Professor of History Dr. Paul M. Gaston. Paper is titled "From Fairhope to Russia: In Pursuit of Utopia," and details the story of Willard H. Edwards, a teacher at the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama who went to Soviet Russia in the mid 1930s to find a teac...
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