The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum is in the home that served as a residence for Scott and Zelda from late September 1931 to February 1932. The couple and their ten year old daughter, Scottie, moved back to Zelda’s hometown to seek peace and the stability of nearby family for Zelda after she was released from a Swiss sanatorium following her first mental breakdown.
The pleasant home in Montgomery’s old monied Cloverdale section was initially helpful to Zelda’s recovery. Situated less than a mile from the Montgomery Country Club where Zelda had been quite the belle in her youth, the home had a rose garden on the side and a magnificent magnolia tree in the front yard. The Fitzgeralds settled into a life of tennis, golf and visiting friends. Scott worked on Tender is the Night, and Zelda began composing the novel, Save Me the Waltz.
But by October, Scott was bored and wrote in his Ledger, “life dull.” Scott was offered an opportunity to work on a movie script, and he left Zelda and Scottie in Montgomery while he went to Hollywood for eight weeks. Zelda was lonely without Scott and wrote him, “Scottie is so sweet and darling and the house is so pleasant and I have everything in the world except you.”
During Scott’s absence Zelda’s father, Judge Anthony Sayers, an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court, died on November 17, 1931 following a lengthy illness. Zelda began showing signs of distress and by the following February the family would leave the Montgomery home, and Zelda would enter the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
The house now serves as the only museum in the world to commemorate Scott and Zelda. In the front yard, there is a square memorial constructed with bricks from Zelda’s childhood home at 6 Pleasant Avenue.
Museum tour hours are Wednesday - Friday: 10am - 2pm and Saturday & Sunday: 1pm - 5pm. A tour is well worth the $5 admission, but extra stealth is required during those hours of operation.
You are looking for a small to medium size square oversized camo matchstick case.
There is also a letterbox very close by. Both the geocache and the letterbox have been placed with the permission of the Museum.
Congratulations to OHail for first to find!