[Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press, Early Seventies Underground Newspaper

[Ted Moffett]

Apparently, some (even yours truly...) are disinclined to investigating the
U of I library for basic research... Some issues of "Buffalo Free Press" are
on microfilm at the U of I library, according to a reliable source.
Therefore, there is no need to search the "Chaotic Archive of Radicalism"
(whatever this means...) or the basement (Relegated to the basement, is it?
Well, so much for truth in our so called "Democracy") of the "K-House at
WSU."  If you already knew about the Moscow, Idaho based "Buffalo Free
Press" why not just tell us to begin with? You posted to Vision2020
(Mimeograph machine underground newspapers?  What an insult to the "Buffalo
Free Press," if you thought this publication might be lumped in with
these blurry efforts!) as though you were not quite certain of newspapers of
so called "underground" status during the historical period of interest,
based in Moscow, Idaho?

A U of I library wizard offered this reference for microfilm of some
"Buffalo Free Press" issues at the U of I library:

Buffalo Free Press
Sep 15, Oct 26-Nov 9 (1970) Filed under Miscellaneous - Idaho, Reel 24
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
On 2/18/09, deb <debismith at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>  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 <starbliss at gmail.com>
> *To:* deb <debismith at moscow.com> ; Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu>
> *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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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