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FMH-V1005 - Video, Digital
Video produced by the Fairhope Museum of History c. 2010 about the 1934/1935 Fire Truck on display. Museum Director Donnie Barrett and Museum Docent Ralph Thayer discuss the history of the truck. The truck is built on a 1934 Ford chassis, with the fire appartatus installed in 1935 by the Peter Pirsch and Sons Company in Kenosha Wisconsin. The City of Fairhope bought the truck from the Town of Hogansville, Georgia in 1955 to use for grass fire...
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...
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...
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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FSTC-V0001 - Video, Digital
Video titled "Fairhope: The First Century 1894-1994." This film was produced by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in 1995, during the Centennial year of it's founding. Written, directed, and produced by Dean Mosher and narrated by Graham Timbes. 31 min. Story of a century where an idea became a colony and a colony became a city: Fairhope. Begun in Des Moine, Iowa and moved to Alabama, our founders believed their idea had "a fairhope of...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0002 - Video, Digital
Video titled "Characters: A Search for the Essence of Fairhope." The was performed in 1994 in honor of the dedication of Centennial Hall on the campus of Faulkner State Community College (now Coastal Alabama Community College). This site was the original campus of the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education. Play produced by the Joy in Acting Workshop with Graham Timbes, Director. Performances: April 30, and May 4-8, 1994. 1 hour 38 min...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0003 - Video, Digital
Video of play titled "A Fair Hope of Success" produced on December 15-18, 1994 by playwright Mark Gillespie for the Fairhope, Alabama Centennial. Thie play is set in Iowa and Fairhope where E. B. Gaston and a group of men ultimately mold Henry George's single tax theory to better reflect their own goals. Gaston came up with a plan called "true cooperative indvidualism" and that, in fact, made it not a socialist community, but one where indivi...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0004 - Video, Digital
Video titled "First Thursday in Fairhope" dated September 6, 1984, hosted by Judy Stone. The video is part of the "First Thursday" series produced by Alabama Public Television (APT, University of Alabama Television Services). Run time is 30 minutes. Filmed in 1984 during Fairhope's Centennial, the video includes information on Fairhope's founding as a single tax colony, the Organic School of Education, the Jubilee phenomenon, businesses, organ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0005 - Video, Digital
Video titled Adren, Delaware produced in 1972 by Arden Films. This film is the story of a Single Tax Colony founded in 1900 still in operation today in Arden, Delaware. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0006 - Video, Digital
Video titled Fairhope 1962. This black and white production is by Curtis Willard, and includes rare film from mid-20th century Fairhope, early Fairhope photographs and narration. Dances, life on the streets of Fairhope, the beaches, schools, classrooms and cafeterias, football,.potato sheds and agriculture, recitals and many citizens and more are included in this interesting and informatiive film. Narrated by Curtis Willard, who filmed many of ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0007 - Video, Digital
Video titled A Tale of Five Cities: Tax Revolt-Pennsylvania Style produced in 1984 about land tax valuation in Pennsylvania in five cities: Pittsburgh, Scranton, Harrisburg, Kingsport and New Castle. Produced by the Center for Public Dialogue. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0008 - Video, Digital
Video titled The Legacy of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation produced in 2016 by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The history of the Corporation (FSTC) and the beginnings of the Fairhope Colony are disucssed as well as an explanation of Henry George's Single Tax theory and how it is demonstrated in Fairhope. Present-day video of Fairhope, and photographs of early Fairhope and late-nineteenth century Des Moines, Iowa are included. Th...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0012 - Video, Digital
Documentary video dated 2002 titled "A Fair Hope" written and directed by Michael Letcher for The University of Alabama Center of Public Television (APT). Reformers (members of the Fairhope Industrial Association, later renamed the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation) founded Fairhope in 1894 to address the economic and social problems of late 19th century America by demonstrating the practical application of the single tax economic theory. ...
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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
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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