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Henry James Stuart was in his late 60s at the time he was diagnosed with a terminal illness [tuberculosis] and given a year to live. He moved in 1923 from Nampa, Idaho, to Fairhope, Ala., for warmer weather. By 1926, he completed a circular hur

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After a rocky start, the little colony had attracted numerous hardworking settlers from various parts of the country. The natural beauty of the location together with cooperative development, nurtured a kind of democratic communalism that app

What is now the city of Fairhope, Baldwin County , was established in 1894 as a model community based on what Ernest Berry Gaston, a young Iowa journalist and Populist Party officer, called"cooperative individualism," a term he intr

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→ link to full text “The leather-and-canvas satchel that Henry put into service as a book bag for his trip to Alabama looked almost as fresh as it had when Molly had given it to him twenty years earlier. Henry knelt on his front porch an

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

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“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

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