[Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper
Carl Westberg
idahovandal1 at live.com
Wed Feb 18 18:03:25 PST 2009
I remember it, too, Ted. Speaking of that era, does anyone remember the "Universal Life Church Picnic" at Farragut State Park in 1971? Advertised discretely in some of those very same "underground newspapers" that turned out to be quite the mini-Woodstock, 3 days around the clock bands with a crowd estimated at over 50,000. I spent the entire 3 days there, and after about 2 days without sleep, and a couple of beers, who did I run into because they decided from watching the news stories that it would be fun to drive up to Farragut State Park and watch these crazy kids? My parents. It was a very brief conversation. "Hi, mom and dad, what a surprise. I'll, uh, see you later." Or words to that effect. My dad always laughed about that. Mom, maybe not so much. Carl Westberg Jr.
From: debismith at moscow.com
To: starbliss at gmail.com; ngier at uidaho.edu
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:53:16 -0800
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper
Actually, Ted, I do remember it. I was a
member of the Covered Wagon anti-war group in Mtn. Home, and copies of the
Buffalo would make the rounds of the air base and the anti-war airmen in
Mtn. Home. I will look in my boxes in the Chaotic Archive of Radicalism which is
in my studio and see if I can locate a copy. Likely it is next to the song
sheets from the Covered Wagon Singers Songs of Protest Old and New....I
think there is also a copy pasted to the wall in the basement of the K-House at
WSU, along with all sorts of posters and newspapers from the
period....
Debi R-S
----- Original Message -----
From:
Ted Moffett
To: deb ; Nick Gier
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:47
PM
Subject: Buffalo Free Press, Early
Seventies Underground Newspaper
Not an "urban legend."
I was wondering what the readers of Vision2020 really knew about
"underground" newspapers in our area during the sixties or early seventies,
given I worked and wrote for such a newspaper, that was distributed throughout
the Northwest, and based in Moscow, Idaho. So I asked first, hoping
someone would remember... I'm not sure how exactly to define an
"underground"newspaper, but this newspaper was not done for profit, and
had little if any advertising, with content of a very "radical" social
political nature.
It was printed on the "Daily Idahonian" (I might have this
wrong, but that's what "The Daily News" was called then) printing
presses. We sometimes worked out of the Campus Christian Center during
brainstorming sessions that I wish I had audio tapes of... I could name at
least three of the staff (not including me), all capable thinkers and writers,
one of whom I know Nick Gier knew personally (Nick, if you can guess who,
please keep it to yourself). I clearly recall once accepting a large
shipment of this newspaper that I distributed freely, with some trepidation,
given the "radical" content, to the citizens of the Twin Falls,
Idaho area, when I was visiting friends in Twin Falls.
Apparently, Vision2020 has no one reading or inclined to respond who
recalls the brilliant and well distributed "underground" newspaper (yes, a
real newspaper on newsprint, not a mimeograph machine) published in the early
1970s in Moscow, Idaho, "Buffalo Free Press." Though printed as
though a newspaper, it was more of a sophisticated social political activist
journal.
If anyone reading this by some miracle has a copy of one or more of the
editions of this newspaper I would love to at least copy it...
Ted Moffett
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM, deb <debismith at moscow.com>
wrote:
Oh, for Pete's sake! This forum has gotten so
self righteous and up-in-arms, one can't even make a joking reference to
"urban legend" without having to provide nine thousand proofs! ROTFL!!!!
Stop, Stop, it's making my ribs hurt!!!! It's like watching a zombie
movie--too stupid to watch, too amazingly ridiculous to
ignore!!
Surely, folks who have been in Moscow a while
have "heard about someone who knew someone who saw the undergound passage
between the building (X) and the building (y) undergound in downtown Moscow
before they got covered up"? I've only been here about 25 years, and have
heard this urban myth....
As for the "underground newspapers", what were
all these old hippies (this poster being one) who came to Moscow to
finish their lives doing in the sixties? There were "underground newspapers"
everywhere. Granted, most had a run of two copies before the mimeo machine
fumes put them out for the count, but they must have been in MOSCOW? They
were in PULLMAN....the last bastion of the Ole Hippy cannot go undefended!!!
(That's a joke, Son. Don't sue me)
Y'all need to get over yourselves, get less
defensive, and grow a sense of humour. No wonder this forum has deteriorated
to five people closing their eyes while slapping each other silly...you look
like a Monty Python skit!!! The Department of Ridiculous Defense
Postures...."OOOOH, OOOH, Prove it!!!" Maybe it's just the long cold winter
that's got y'all in a lather? Get some full spectrum lights, some better
antidepressants, or a life for Ghod's sake, and stop being so flipping
grumpy!!
By the way, Joan Opyr's newest book is
out---some conflation of characters there look a lot like some
Moscovites...From Hell to Breakfast is a very funny read! and I think some
of you could use a really good laugh......................trust me, you WILL
feel better.
Debi R-S
PS: if there is an iota of sunshine, I suggest
y'all go stand in it as long as it lasts....stimulate that seratonin, you
dour Moscovites!! Laugh! Get some fresh air into those stifled and
sour nasal passages!! Cowboy Up, Kids!! Winter is a ending, though not soon
enough to keep you all from another smack-down, i'm sure.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bev Bafus
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:04
PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] And Now for
Something a Little Different
I don't know what the
original poster had in mind, but at least one of the creeks in Moscow goes
underground somewhere near the junior high, and comes out near Lilly
Street. This is a very large culvert. During dry season, could
be considered a tunnel?
Bev
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lockshop
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:37 PM
To:
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; Ted Moffett; deb; g.
crabtree
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little
Different
I'm well aware of the U of I's heat
tunnels. It was great fun to go exploring in them when I was a youth. My
question was directed to the assertion of downtown tunnels. The closest
the university system comes to downtown is a couple dozen feet east
of elm between sixth and Idaho ave. Over the years
I've been in the basements of most all of the older downtown structures
and I've seen no indication of tunnels. I'm not saying they don't (or
didn't) exist, I'm just asking for additional information.
g
----- Original Message -----
From: Donovan
Arnold
To: Ted Moffett ; deb ; g. crabtree
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009
12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] And Now
for Something a Little Different
I know UI has underground tunnels underneath it.
I don't know about downtown though. But what would be the point,
I mean, it is only one mile from one end of downtown to the
other.
Best Regards,
Donovan
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Mon, 2/16/09, g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
From:
g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little Different
To:
"Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>, "deb" <debismith at moscow.com>
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Monday,
February 16, 2009, 5:59 AM
I'd also be interested in a
little documentation on these "underground tunnels through
downtown Moscow" When, from where to where, and
why?
g
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Original Message -----
From:
Ted Moffett
To:
deb
Cc:
vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent:
Monday, February 16, 2009 1:24 AM
Subject:
Re: [Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little
Different
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
----- Original Message -----
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
> 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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