[Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little Different

[Ted Moffett]

Name one "underground" newspaper from the "sixties" based in this area...

Ted Moffett


On 2/12/09, deb <debismith at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> What an interesting job! It might actually be fun to look at Moscow's
> historical porn industry---heaven knows we have other oddities in our
> history (Frank Robinson ring a bell? How's about those underground tunnels
> through downtown? What about the underground newspapers in the sixties? The
> subversive meetings of the MOLES? religious schisms and flame wars?).
> Perhaps it is a book. "The Weird History and Current Conditions of  a Small
> Idaho Town". We certainly have enough local chatracters and color to do it.
> And, by the way, Joan Opyr's new book, From Hell to Breakfast, is now
> out!!!
> Yahoo--the adventure continues!
> Debi R-S
>
>
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> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:34 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little Different
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>
> > If you recently stole the Dutch City of Leeuwarden's municipal porn
> > archive, city officials would like a word with you.
> >
> > In a related news item, cities in the Netherlands have municipal porn
> > archives.
> >
> > Courtesy of the Associated Press at:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/at47ld
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Dutch city fears loss of pornography archive
> > By TOBY STERLING
> > Associated Press Writer
> >
> > The municipal pornography archive in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden is
> > missing and officials fear it may be gone for good.
> >
> > Spokesman Erik Krikke of the city's historical center said the archive -
> > which contained photos, drawings and erotic texts with a connection to
> the
> > city - may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor.
> >
> > "We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and
> > bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked."
> >
> > Krikke said the collection was small enough to have fit in a moving box.
> >
> > Mayor Ferd Crone of Leeuwarden, 87 miles (140 kilometers) north of
> > Amsterdam, told local media he had been unaware of the collection's
> > existence and was surprised it was gone.
> >
> > Krikke said the bulk of the archive had been assembled by a "fanatic"
> > curator at the historical center, mostly during the 1960s and '70s. Items
> > such as pictures by local photographers and artists would be difficult or
> > impossible to replace.
> >
> > The collection included a copy of the rare February 1998 edition of Dutch
> > Playboy, Krikke said. It featured girls from each of 11 Dutch cities
> along
> > the route of the country's most beloved ice skating race, the
> > Elfstedentocht. One of those girls was from Leeuwarden.
> >
> > Asked whether he thought it was unusual for the town to have a
> pornography
> > collection, Krikke said "yes" - and that made the loss greater.
> >
> > "Actually, we don't have one anymore," he said.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > How about it, Moscow?
> >
> > Heck.  City hall would have to hire a complete separate staff just to
> > process public records requests.
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
> > Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
> > to work."
> >
> > - Roy Zimmerman
> >
> >
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