[Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper
Craine Kit
kcraine at verizon.net
Fri Feb 20 15:53:39 PST 2009
"Wocsomonian" is "Moscowian" with "Moscow" spelled backwards. Someone
was being creative.
Kit Craine
On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Sue Hovey wrote:
> Ted,
> There was an "underground" newspaper in the high school in the
> very early 70s (probably a year or so after you graduated.) It was
> mimeographed and didn't publish more than a couple of editions. It
> was during the days of the high school paper, the Wocsomonian (I
> never understood the title either) and I think the kids in the
> journalism class had a hand in its publication, as well. It dealt
> more with school issues than other political events. I remember
> one was dress codes, but that didn't get much play because it was
> about that time the dress codes pretty much disappeared in the high
> school for both students and teachers. The printing was done off
> campus, but the distribution was on campus.
>
> Maybe some of you early 70s grads remember it.
>
> Sue H.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ted Moffett
> To: deb ; Nick Gier
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:47 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] 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
> -----Original 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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