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The Fitzgerald Museum

The Fitzgerald Museum The only Museum dedicated to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Info: http://www.thefit 2020 - Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice

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We are sad to hear of the passing of Martha Cassels. She managed the 919 Felder Ave. home and was instrumental in helpin...
01/04/2023
Montgomery Advertiser Obituaries in Montgomery, AL | Montgomery Advertiser

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...

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One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. Those wh...
12/25/2022

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

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F. Scott Fitzgerald died on this day in 1940.
12/21/2022

F. Scott Fitzgerald died on this day in 1940.

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The Fitz is proud to host the monthly meeting of the Press and Authors Club whose inaugural members included Zelda’s mot...
12/13/2022

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.

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Thanks to Rhonda “Cookie” Stoner, former Fitz Board Member (‘92-‘98) for visiting the Fitz!
12/06/2022

Thanks to Rhonda “Cookie” Stoner, former Fitz Board Member (‘92-‘98) for visiting the Fitz!

12/06/2022
The Fitz Christmas Open House will be Dec. 10.
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The Fitz Christmas Open House will be Dec. 10.

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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 ...
11/19/2022

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.
11/15/2022

May Day (Part 2) is now available on iTunes or Spotify on the Fitz Muse podcast channel.

11/11/2022
The Fitz Tales series continues with Part 1 of May Day. May Day is read by John Martello. The Fitz Tales series was made...
11/08/2022

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

https://linktr.ee/fitzmuse

Thank you to Friend of The Fitz Julie Pfitzinger for her including the The Fitz!
11/03/2022
'The Art Made Me Think, It Made Me Feel'

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.

11/02/2022

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!
10/31/2022

Happy Halloween JATSBY!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is now available on iTunes and Spotify!"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. S...
10/31/2022

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

Address

919 Felder Avenue
Montgomery, AL
36106

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

(334) 264-4222

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The Inaugural Teaching The Great Gatsby Conference Schedule
The conference will be held on July 15 -16, 2022, and Amy Goldman, creator of the Teaching The Great Gatsby Group, will be the Keynote Speaker.

Registration is $150 and will include all sessions, a reception at the Fitzgerald Museum on Friday night, a small Fitzgerald related swag bag, catered lunch and snacks for Saturday sessions, and 6 hours of Continuing Education credits for those who attend six sessions.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-the-great-gatsby-conference-tickets-289947740497

Conference Schedule

Friday, July 15
Drum Hall – Huntingdon College
(1125 E Fairview Ave, Montgomery, AL 36106)
Registration: 12:00 – 12:30
Keynote: 12:45 to 1:15 – Amy Goldman

Session One: 1:30 – 2:30 – History of Gatsby
1:30 – 2:30 - Alaina Doten – History of Gatsby and the 1920s

Session Two: 2:45 – 3:30 – History of the Fitzgeralds
Maire Martello - History of Scot and Zelda Fitzgerald
Q&A: 3:30 – 4:00

Reception at The Fitzgerald Museum: 7:00 – 9:00
‘20s dress is encouraged, but not required.
(919 Felder Ave., Montgomery, AL 36106)

Saturday, July 16
Drum Hall – Huntingdon College

Session One: 9:00 to 10:30 – Curriculum and Strategies and Methods
9:00 – 9:40 – Amy Goldman – Curriculum and Activities
9:45 – 10:15 –Marcy Newbold– Curriculum and Activities

Session Two: 10:30 to 12:00 – Strategies and Methods
10:30 – 11:00 - Julie Haynes – Strategies and Methods
11:15 – 11:45 – Traci Mitchell – AP Language
11:45 – 12:00 – Q&A

Session Three: 1:00 to 2:30 – Discussion Groups
1:00 – 1:30 – Ainsley McClacherie – Fostering Environmental Awareness thru Gatsby
1: 45 – 2:15 – Deborah Moore – Contemporizing Gatsby
2:15 – 2:30 Q&A

Session Four: 2:45 to 4:30 – Discussion Groups
2:45 – 3:15 – Deborah Linn McNemee – Why Does Daisy Stay?
3:30 – 4:15 – Kate Smith - Myrtle and the Greenwich Village Bohemians
4:15 – 4:30 – Q&A
Summer is upon us! The magnolia tree is now in bloom. Come this Summer!
Happy Armed Forces Day from The Fitz!
Look for our upcoming announcement for an Evening with Clint Emerson - 2022 Fitzgerald Prize Recepient.

Join us for the Inaugural Teaching The Great Gatsby Conference! July 15-16!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-the-great-gatsby-conference-tickets-289947740497
Check out which Fitz family members will be visiting Birmingham/Homewood later this summer. Thanks The Homewood Star! https://thehomewoodstar.com/events/stepping-scott-zelda-author-maire-martello-alaina-doten-executive-director-fitzgerald-museum/
The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Voss by Patrick White
Oleanna by David Mamet
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
taught Andrew Turnbull to shoot, box, play football, and military history. You can learn some of these same skills from 2022 Fitzgerald Prize Winner Clint Emerson’s Clint Emerson
Thanks to Fodor's Travel for including The Fitz in their list of celebrity homes!

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