Yes, my next Fairhope book, with museum director Gabe Gold-Vukson, is out July 31. You can pre-order a copy through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Or stop into Page and Palette and ask to pre-order the $24 book. For the Arcadia Press Past and Present Series book, Gabe and I found some amazing photos in the museum collection, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Online Archives, and the Fairhope Public Library. Then we went to the same locations and took a photo capturing the very same scene. In most cases, they are a match! Except the present photographs are full color.
Sunday July 16, 2023: 2:00 PM, Guest Lecturer Alan Samry and Willie Taylor, Baldwin County Historical Society. University of South Alabama Fairhope Campus.
“History Nerds 100 Years Ago: The Faces and Places of our Society Founders,” traces two librarians and other prominent county leaders as they organized the first Alabama county historical society in 1923! Alan will put the founders into perspective as he traces the organization and it’s early leaders from 1923 until the publication of the society’s book, A Brief History of Baldwin County. Yes, the society compromised history nerds from lawyers, judges, doctors, educators, bankers, retirees and armchair enthusiasts with names like Comings, Albers, Cross, Stapleton, Holmes, Winberg, and Rickarby to name a few.
Willie Taylor, retired educator and author of Reaching Reality East of Mobile Bay, will talk briefly about her African American descendants in Baldwin County. She’ll also connect the late authors Florence and Richard Scott and the historical society.
New Book Launch/Trivia Night
You are invited to attend our book launch/trivia night at Page and Palette. We will be there Thursday August 3, at 6 PM. We’ll have a brief and fun trivia contest to see who knows what about Fairhope. After, we’ll hang around and personalize books.
Gabriel and I are proud of this book. As we looked at the historic photographs, dating from the 1900s to 1970s, we were amazed at how much is still the same. Yes, Fairhope is growing, but this book shows that our downtown, bayviews, and homes of the founders are still present.
More Book Event Dates!
Sunday August 6: 2:00-5:00 PM, Authors Event, Barnes & Noble in Spanish Fort
Sunday August 20: 10:00 AM, Guest speakers, Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship
The Rest of the Story
As a writer, I have to say, it was a huge challenge getting our captions down to 80 words. Fairhope Past and Present is dominated by some grand images. However, I’m reminding that you have to have my previous book, Mapping Fairhope: Legends, Locals, and Landmarks. It tells the stories both then and now of the people and places inside the Fairhope images. Paperback available at Page and Palette and Tom Jones Pottery. Paperback, hardcover, and ebook available at Amazon.
Stump The Librarian 