Fairhope, Alabama--on Beautiful Mobile Bay
Author : Fairhope Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1946*
Category : Fairhope (Ala.)
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Author : Fairhope Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1946*
Category : Fairhope (Ala.)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1941*
Category : Fairhope (Ala.)
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Author : Creighton C. Forsman
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780991327324
She's Bound to be a Goer tells the forty year story of the steamboats that served Fairhope, Alabama from its beginning in 1894 as well as those serving the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. The construction of a bridge for automobiles across the upper part of Mobile Bay doomed the steamboats.
Author : Alan Samry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1467160164
Fairhope, Alabama, was founded on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in 1894 as a social experiment. The pioneers applied the single-tax principle and economic philosophy found in Henry George's 1879 book Progress and Poverty. The city of Fairhope was established in 1908 inside and around the colony, known today as the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. This book celebrates the timeless Fairhope bay views and historic buildings and homes.
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Fairhope (Ala.)
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Author : Cathy Donelson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2005-11-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 143961718X
Three centuries of Utopian dreams came true in the 1890s, when a group of idealists founded Fairhope as a cooperative colony on a lush bluff along Alabamas Gulf Coast. The visionary settlers thought their experimental village had a fair hope of success. An oasis of idealism and equality, Fairhope not only succeeded but grew into an elegant enclave of individualism and intellect. The bayside town is the worlds oldest and largest single-tax colony as well as a popular resort that draws visitors from around the world. Photographic images herein capture the unique development by adventurous characters with diverse backgrounds. This book is a map of Old Fairhope.
Author : Cathy Donelson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738598925
The 1920s roared into the quiet bay-front utopian village of Fairhope in roadsters and riverboats carrying free thinkers, nudists, bootleg whiskey, Socialists, progressives, and some of the leading counter-culture authors and artists of the century. Founded in 1894 as a model cooperative colony, Fairhope had a name before it was a place because its settlers believed their unique venture would have a "fair hope" of success. Its cornerstone was the law of equal freedom for all. During the Jazz Age, flappers and wealthy visitors from metropolitan centers of Chicago and New York abounded during the post-war boom. They flocked to the beautiful resort spot on Mobile Bay, an entertainment center with dance and yacht clubs and a waterfront casino. The town's individualistic roots also attracted famous idealists, intellectuals, and social critics of the day, as well as mavericks, Communists, and some just plain kooks.
Author : Ben Raines
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781588383389
Journalist, filmmaker, and environmental activist Ben Raines turns his attention to Alabama's Tensaw Delta in this gorgeously illustrated and meticulously researched book. Identified by Raines and others as America's own Amazon, the Tensaw Delta is the most biodiverse ecosystem in our nation. This special book celebrates this most significant of Alabama's waterways while also chronicling how it is increasingly at risk.
Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525658815
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.