The only Museum dedicated to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Info: http://www.thefit 2020 - Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice
Operating as usual
We are sad to hear of the passing of Martha Cassels. She managed the 919 Felder Ave. home and was instrumental in helping save the house, and served on its inaugural board. Our condolences and prayers to the Cassels family.
October 22, 1932-December 25, 2022 Martha Beasley Cassels died at age 90 on December 25 in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She was born to Faith Ora...
Submission info here:
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/20222023-literary-contest
One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o’clock of a December evening, with a few Chicago friends, already caught up into their own holiday gayeties, to bid them a hasty good-by. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss This-or-that’s and the chatter of frozen breath and the hands waving overhead as we caught sight of old acquaintances, and the matchings of invitations: “Are you going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” and the long green tickets clasped tight in our gloved hands. And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate.
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again.
That’s my Middle West — not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family’s name. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Submission info here:
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/20222023-literary-contest
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on this day in 1940.
The Fitz is proud to host the monthly meeting of the Press and Authors Club whose inaugural members included Zelda’s mother and sister Rosalind. Zelda was a member in the 1940s.
More info here:
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/20222023-literary-contest
The Fitz has a 2 day Flash sale!
The Gatsby quote cards are also now available too!
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
More info here: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/20222023-literary-contest
Thanks to Rhonda “Cookie” Stoner, former Fitz Board Member (‘92-‘98) for visiting the Fitz!
Get one of our Daisy pendants for your favorite Gatsby fan.
Shop here: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
The Fitz Christmas Open House will be Dec. 10.
Add a little Fitzperation to your Christmas tree!
Online gift shop: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
It’s giving Tuesday!
Give the gift of a gift card to a friend or give a gift to The Fitz!
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/become-a-sponsor/one-time-gift
Online gift shop: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
Get your copy of The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald here:
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
Submissions are open for the 2022 - 2023 Fitzgerald Literary Contest, open to high school and undergraduates internationally.
Submissions close Dec.31, 2022.
The Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award is for high school students in Alabama only.
For more information:
Fitzgerald Literary Contest:
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/20222023-literary-contest
Zelda Young Writers Award: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/third-annual-zelda-sayre
Use promo code THANKS for 20% off the online gift shop thru Nov. 30.
Store: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/online-store
To celebrate the publication of The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald by Eleanor Lanahan, we are thrilled to partner with the The Fitzgerald Museum for a giveaway!
We are offering 3 lucky winners the chance to win a copy of The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald, 2 postcards, one Scott and Zelda sticker, magnet and an ornament from the official The Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum!
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We’ll pick the winner November 30th. No purch. nec. Void where prohibited. US residents only. AGE 18+. Subject to rules.
Congrats to the Iveys for being married at the Fitz!
The museum will be closed for the private ceremony and reception on Saturday and Sunday, Nov.19-20.
May Day (Part 2) is now available on iTunes or Spotify on the Fitz Muse podcast channel.
Want to stay in either the Scott or Zelda Suite over Thanksgiving? Please contact the museum via our website to book!
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/new-page
The Fitz Tales series continues with Part 1 of May Day.
May Day is read by John Martello.
The Fitz Tales series was made possible by grants form Alabama Humanities Alliance and Alabama State Council on the Arts
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The Moral Complexity of Women in Fitzgerald | National Review
Let us talk literature, you and me.
Want to stay in either the Scott or Zelda Suite over Thanksgiving?
Please contact the museum via our website to book!
https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/new-page
Thank you to Friend of The Fitz Julie Pfitzinger for her including the The Fitz!
As part of Next Avenue's Museum Challenge, readers visited museums of all varieties across the country. Here are some stories about their experiences.
Zelda's favorites were peaches and biscuits!
There’s a scientific reason no one outside the South can nail them.
Today is World Ballet Day!
A few myths still surround Zelda and her pursuit of ballet. She did not begin studying ballet at 27 (as Scott wrote) but was a life long student of ballet from her childhood, and ballet remained one of creative pursuits and exercises well into the 1940s.
Come visit the Fitz and stand, or pose, where this iconic photo was taken!
Happy Halloween JATSBY!
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is now available on iTunes and Spotify!
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by W. Scott Page, Bo Jinright, Jay Russell, Emily Wooten, and Chris Roquemore.
Directed by Sam Wooten
Produced by Alaina M. Doten
Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax
This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from Alabama Humanities Alliance and Alabama State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Cloverdale Playhouse
ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fitzmuse-podcast/id1587091221
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2xj9pASimW8mYADZPFHQ0B
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Today is World Ballet Day! A few myths still surround Zelda and her pursuit of ballet. She did not begin studying ballet at 27 (as Scott wrote) but was a life long student of ballet from her childhood, and ballet remained one of creative pursuits and exercises well into the 1940s. Come visit the Fitz and stand, or pose, where this iconic photo was taken! #Zelda #ballet #worldballetday #savemethewaltz
It was a beautiful day for the Zelda Fountain rededication. Thanks to Karen Benton for leading the restoration campaign. Special thanks to the Mayor of Old Cloverdale, Rob Hessee for presiding over the rededication ceremony. Also thanks to Taimoor Arshad for beginning the project as his Eagle Scout project and thanks to @theclaymac , our city counsel man, for attending. Finally, thanks to the incomparable Greta Lambert for reading Scottie Fitzgerald Smith’s words from the original dedication.
Thanks to Roman for visiting and playing a little for us. Have a recital or reception with us at The Fitz!
Zelda in 1919 on spending the day at Oakwood Cemetery. I’ve spent today in the graveyard. It really isn’t a cemetery, you know, – Why should graves make people feel in vain? I’ve heard that so much, and Grey is so convincing, but somehow I can’t find anything hopeless in having lived – All the broken columns and clasped hands and doves and angels mean romances – and in a hundred years I think I shall like having young people speculate on whether my eyes were brown or blue – of course, they are neither – I hope my grave has an air of many, many years ago about it – Isn’t it funny how, out of a row of Confederate soldiers, two or three will make you think of dead lovers and dead loves – when they’re exactly like the others, even to the yellowish moss? Old death is so beautiful – so very beautiful – We will die together – I know –
Check out Museum Prez. Rachel Minder speaking on WSFA TV's "Alabama Live" today to share about the The Fitz Spring Gala! We hope you'll join us this Saturday for a fabulous way to celebrate spring!
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Come #visitscottandzelda
Back by popular demand…Singing Scott.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died #otd on North Hayworth Ave in Los Angeles in 1940. He was 44 years old. The apartment remains a private residence (grey building). #fscottfitzgerald
Thanks to acclaimed author Frye Gaillard, our 2019 Fitzgerald Literary Prize recipient, for his kind words to Rick Bragg as our 2021 recipient! Join Frye, Rick, and other previous years' winners in person, on Friday, Sept. 24th at the museum, and stay tuned for other kind messages we will share from previous years' awardees. Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-rick-bragg-2021-fitzgerald-literary-prize-recipent-tickets-165054509481?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
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