The Fairhope Museum of History has a fun event planned for this year’s Roundup Day, the celebration of when the founders of the original Fairhope Single Tax Colony arrived on the Eastern Shore in 1894.

“This year, Roundup Day falls on Saturday, November 15, and we invite folks to come out to enjoy a Roundup Play that we will present at the Fairhope Colony Cemetery,” said Donnie Barrett, museum director. “We wrote and performed this last year at the museum and was quite well received by a large audience, so this year we are taking it outside.”

This year, the play will be presented twice, at 11am and again at 2pm at the cemetery, located at the corner of North Section and Oak streets, just across from City Hall. “We will have costumed actors standing near the grave of the person they are pretending to be,” Barrett explained. “We will portray these people having discussions with Fairhope’s founder, Ernest Gaston, about the difficulties of their first day here. We hope to have about twenty Fairhope founders represented.”

Barrett will emcee the play and provide an overview of the Single Tax theory with his portrayal of American economist Henry George, an influential proponent of the single tax theory. The Fairhope Single Tax Colony was one of the most successful of several colonies based on George’s theories.

Admission to the play is $10 per person with tickets available in advance at the museum and walk-ons permitted if the event is not sold out. For more information, call the museum at 929-1471.