Guide to the Pat Fahey Letter MSS.3079
Fahey, Pat
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
October 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Pat Fahey Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3079
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1936 July 13
- Abstract:
A letter from Pat Fahey to Grace Fahey of Canton, Ohio. Pat writes from Fort Scott Camp thanking her for the dollar she sent in her letter.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Pat Fahey Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains a letter from Pat Fahey in Fort Scott Camp to Grace Fahey of Canton, Ohio. While the envelope is addressed to Grace Fahey, the letter itself is addressed to "Mother and Dad." In the letter he thanks them for the money they sent. He also mentions that he'd been kept out of swimming for a while because he'd had a fall, and that only a few boys in his cabin like him.
Biographical/Historical note
Fort Scott Camp was a Catholic summer camp established in 1922 on 250 acres along the Great Miami River in Harrison, Ohio. The residential camp program included horseback riding, drama, environmental awareness, sports skills, archery, swimming, and spiritual growth. It also included overnight tent camping designed specifically for teens, with backpacking, learning survival skills and opportunities for senior campers to take a whitewater river canoe trip.
It closed in 1989 because of concerns about the nearby Fernald Nuclear plant.
Letter Box SC0049 Folder 3079.1