[Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper

Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 18 18:42:50 PST 2009


It was called the Idahonian. I wish they would go back to it. If you drive around in the old back country roads of Troy, Deary, and in between you can still see the newspaper holders with the name on it in front of some older houses. Most of them have been replaced with a "Daily News" box. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Wed, 2/18/09, Carl Westberg <idahovandal1 at live.com> wrote:
From: Carl Westberg <idahovandal1 at live.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 6:03 PM




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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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        Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of the 
        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

--- On 
                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
                  
                    ----- 
                    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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